Residential Recycling Requirements

These are general guidlines. Please contact your garbage/recycling hauler for additional requirements they may have.

These materials must be left out of your regular garbage and placed into separate recycling containers (your garbage hauler will pick up these items at least once a month):

• Newspapers (including inserts) and magazines 
• Office paper, computer paper, and bulk mail 
• Plastics (#1 & #2), tin cans, steel cans, and aluminum cans (together in one container)
• Corrugated cardboard (look for wavy corrugations between layers)

• Recyclables must be clean (rinsed out).
• Remove lids from bottles (labels are okay).
• Newspapers must be kept dry.
• Pinch the tops of food cans or flatten so other cans or items can't get inside.
• Items that may be recycled (but are not included on this list) may be taken to a recycling facility.
• When recycling corrugated cardboard boxes, remove packing material. Flatten cardboard boxes. Cardboard must be clean. Throw away paper board boxes such as juice boxes, milk cartons, egg cartons, cereal, cake mix, tissue, and shoe boxes. Throw away wax-coated boxes, soda and beer cartons, and pizza boxes.

• You must use paper yard waste bags or weather-proof containers.
• Yard waste bags need a sticker (call your hauler).
• Grass and leaves cannot be mixed with other waste (keep apart from sticks and branches).
• Yard waste bags and containers should remain house-side, clearly visible to the hauler from the street.
• Tree branches will be picked up on your garbage day and should be in four-foot bundles or shorter. For larger branches, consult your hauler.