it is important to recycle correctly as this makes for clean collections and clean. 

Uncontaminated collections are how a good price is obtained that then sustains local recycling
and also extends the life of our County's limited Landfill space.

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STEEL AND ALUMINUM CANS

Recycle only clean, dry food and drink cans

Use a magnet to determine steel or aluminum. Steel will stick.

No need to crush or remove labels.

Places cans loosely in the bins or trailers (do not box or bag).

-Scrap metals are chemical cans, baking/pie tins and aluminum foil. Dispose at scrap metal landfill bin.

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CORRUGATED CARDBOARD

Remove any packing material - Styrofoam, plastic, metal etc. from each box and flatten all boxes

DO NOT recycle brown paper and paper shopping bags with the cardboard.

-TRASH any cardboard lined with aluminum, wax or plastic. 

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PAPER & NON-CORRUGATED CARDBOARD

Paper includes newspaper, newsprint, opened junk mail, catalogs, magazines, office paper,

school and notebook paper, tablet paper, paper bags, brown paper, non-corrugated cardboard boxes

such as pop/beer can and other dry good boxes ie. cereal, tissue, frozen food boxes. 

-TRASH your paper plates/cups, tissue and other wrapping paper, paper towels. plastic coated paper, 

and sewing tissue paper patterns. 

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GLASS

Empty soda, beer, wine, spirit bottles bottles and jars without lids, caps or corks, in any color is acceptable. Labels can be left on.  

Clear glass vases, glass out of a picture frame and glass tabletops out of its frame are also acceptable.
It is critical to not contaminate the glass collection and that only acceptable glass gets thrown into the big blue bin

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