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• All bottles and jars, clear, brown, or green, used for packaging foods or beverages, and commonly known as glass.
• Mirrors, light bulbs, and auto glass are not acceptable.

How to Save

• Do not break. No plastic bags of any kind.
• Remove caps, lids, and wash out all residue from food containers.
• Commingle with aluminum, tin, and plastic in one container.
• Do not break

About Aluminum

All Aluminum beverage cans and pet food cans. Pie dishes, trays, and aluminum foil are now acceptable.

How to Save

• Do not crush.
• All cans must be rinsed.
• Commingle with glass, tin, and plastic in one container.
• No plastic bags of any kind.

• A steel can with a tin lining that contained food products, juices, and jellies.
• An aerosol can is a sealed, airtight container that dispenses a product in a controlled direction.

How to Save

• Do not crush
• Wash out all food residue.
• Aerosol cans should be empty.
• Commingle with glass, plastic, and aluminum in one container. Do not crush.
• No plastic bags of any kind.

About Plastic Containers

• A plastic bottle or jug that contained milk, apple cider, soda, spring water, bleach, liquor, or laundry detergents.
• Any Plastic container with a 1, 2, or 5 stamped on it.

How to Save

• Do not crush
• Rinse out the container.
• Commingle with glass, aluminum, and tin in one container.
• Do not crush. No plastic bags will be accepted.

Note: All items above can be co-mingled in your recycling container

No plastic bags of any kind.

• All newsprint used to convey or report news.
• Window envelopes, plastic-coated envelopes, brown paper, and tissue are not acceptable.

How to Save

• Tie with twine or place in a recycling container, such as a milk crate. Place at the curbside on the scheduled collection day. Check your recycling calendar.
• No plastic bags of any kind.

About Corrugated Cardboard

• Heavy cardboard made up of two outside layers of heavy paper with corrugation in between. Brown grocery bags are acceptable. You can also include cereal, soap, and packaged food boxes like pasta, rice, potatoes, as well as gift boxes. Remove plastic lining.
• No pizza boxes or cardboard with food contamination.

How to Save

Flatten and tie in bundles no heavier than 30 pounds. Place at the curb next to the commingled items on collection day.

Magazines, newspapers, and mixed paper do not need to be separated. Any publication with a paperback that contains stories and articles. All types of paper, such as catalogs, junk mail, telephone books, computer paper, and high-grade paper. Remove plastic wrappings. Hard-covered books must have the covers removed.

How to Save

Tie with twine or place in a recycling container on your collection day.

About White Goods and Scrap

• Large appliances such as freezers, refrigerators, dryers, washing machines, dishwashers, stoves, hot water heaters, and air conditioners.
• Any large item made of metal or cast iron.

How to Recycle

• For safety, remove all doors and lay tall items on their sides to prevent tipping.
• Call DPW at 440-4860 to give your address and place at the curb on Tuesday night for Wednesday collection.
• Failure to call will result in the item remaining at the curb, and you may be subject to a fine.

• Any used tire from your car, motorcycle, small truck, or trailer.
• No large truck tires are accepted.

How to Save

• Call DPW at 440-4860 to give your address and place at the curb on Tuesday night for Wednesday collection.
• Failure to call will result in the item remaining at the curb, and you may be subject to a fine.

Computers

Computer Processing Units (CPUs), Monitors, laptop computers, hard drives, keyboards, modems.

Electronics

Fax machines, speakers, stereo equipment, television sets, VCRs, and DVD players.

How to Recycle

• Bring to the recycling center at 24 Industrial Avenue, from 9 am to Noon, Monday through Saturday
• Call DPW at 440-4860 to give your address and place at the curb on Tuesday night for Wednesday collection.
• Failure to call will result in the item remaining at the curb, and you may be subject to a fine.

About Yard Waste

Yard waste consists of your grass clippings, bushes, hedges, branches, or logs that come from the upkeep of your yard.

How to Prepare

• Place at the curbside on your scheduled day.
• Grass must be in a rigid plastic or galvanized container or in bio-degradable paper bags.
• No plastic bags
• Bushes, hedges, and branches must be tied in 4-foot bundles.

About Leaves

Those materials naturally formed from trees and bushes that are suitable for composting.

How to Recycle

• During October, November, and December, you can rake your leaves into the street in front of your house or apartment for collection on your street cleaning day.
• You may also place leaves at the curb in biodegradable paper bags.
• No plastic bags will be accepted.

The motor oil and filter from your motor vehicle.

How to Save

• Bring to the recycling center at 24 Industrial Avenue, from 9 am to Noon, Monday through Saturday.
• Do not mix with antifreeze.

Any oil used in your kitchen to prepare food.

How to Save

• Bring to the recycling center at 24 Industrial Avenue, from 9 am to Noon, Monday through Saturday.
• Proof of residency required.
• No plastic bags of any kind.

Accepted Batteries

• Any battery from your car, truck, boat, or motorcycle.
• Any household battery such as AA, AAA, C, D, and 9-volt.

How to Save

Bring to the recycling center at 24 Industrial Avenue, from 9 am to Noon, Monday through Saturday.

A 20-pound tank holding propane to cook with on your outside barbecue. Only 20-pound tanks are accepted.

How to Save

• Bring to the recycling center at 24 Industrial Avenue, from 9 am to Noon, Monday through Saturday.
• Proof of residency required.
• Empty tanks only.

About Textiles

Acceptable textiles are all types of clothing and household textile articles such as pants, dresses, hats, drapes, curtains, belts, towels, sheets, shoes, and handbags.

How to Save

• Bring to the recycling center at 24 Industrial Avenue, from 9 am to Noon, Monday through Saturday.
• Proof of residency required.

• Any wood, plaster, sheetrock, asphalt, shingles, or concrete from any small renovation job from your residential property with no contractor involved.
• Large renovation jobs must be recycled privately.

How to Save

• Bring to the recycling center at 24 Industrial Avenue, from 9 am to Noon, Monday through Saturday.
• No contractors or commercial vehicles are allowed. Proof of residency is required.