Residential Recycling Guidelines

Current recycling guidelines:

• Place your recycling at the curb by 6:30 a.m.
• Keep your recycling about 5 feet away from your garbage, if they are collected on the same day.
• Remove all food wastes from recyclables before placing them in the recycling cart.
• Place all recyclables in the recycling cart, no sorting is required.
• Flatten corrugated cardboard and place in your recycling cart. If you have more than what will fit inside the recycling cart, cut or fold it to 2 feet by 2 feet, and tie it into manageable bundles with string or twine and place next to your recycling cart.
• Avoid putting items the following items in your cart:

  Plastic bags

  Styrofoam

  Pizza delivery boxes

  Broken glass

  Coat hangers

  Helium containers

  Yard trimmings

  Any household hazardous waste

Extra recycling can be placed in a cardboard box.

• Only recycle the following items. For more detailed information, click on the listed items.
  • Newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail & office paper
  • Aluminum, steel & tin cans
  • Glass bottles and jars, all colors
  • Rigid plastic (#1 through #7)
  • Corrugated cardboard
  • Boxboard, such as cereal and soda boxes