All these materials can be accepted in your Single-Stream Recycling bin:

• cardboard boxes (please flatten)

• brown paper bags

• magazines/catalogs

• newspaper: includes newspaper and inserts only

• office paper/opened mail: includes adding machine tape, blueprints, brochures/pamphlets, computer printouts, FAX paper, file folders (manila or pastel-colored only), greeting cards, index cards, letterhead, loose-leaf paper, memos & sticky notes (pastel-colored, no fluorescent colors), legal pad paper (pastel-colored), slick/glossy ads & brochures, stationery & letters, white and pastel-colored paper & envelopes.

• paperboard: includes cereal/cracker boxes (throw away inside bag), gift/shirt boxes, hanging file folders, paper egg cartons, paper tubes (e.g. paper towel tubes), shoe boxes, six-pack and 12-pack cartons/boxes, soap/facial tissue boxes.

• phone books

• aluminum – do not crush or flatten cans, ball clean foil to 2 inches or larger (no flat or small balled up foil, please)

• glass bottles & jars – please rinse, labels are okay, remove and recycle metal lids/caps, avoid breaking glass

• steel/tin cans – please rinse, pinch the open end of cans slightly, labels are okay

• empty aerosol cans

• plastic #1-7 bottles, jugs, tubs and screw top jars – includes milk jugs, soda bottles, shampoo bottles, etc. Empty all liquids and rinse. Plastic caps (small, round caps) can be replaced onto empty plastic bottles and jugs for recycling. Plastic lids (thin, flat) from tubs and jars are not recyclable. Please remove lids and throw them away. Metal caps and lids can be recycled loose; do not reattach to bottle.

• paper milk/soy cartons/drink boxes - please rinse. Do not flatten.

#2 and #4 plastic bags, grocery bags, newspapaer bags and dry cleaner bags that are clean, dry and empty may be recycled at CHaRM, the Center for Hard to Recycle Material operated by Eco-Cycle. No garbage bags, sandwich bags, plastic food wrap or black bags are accepted.

We appreciate your attention to these details.