All recycling should be empty, free of food and mostly clean.
Dirty or greasy cardboard or paper should be placed in landfill.
Recyclable items should be roughly the size of your palm or larger, anything smaller should be placed in the landfill.
When in doubt, throw it out!
Metals
Aluminum cans and foil (crumpled in a ball the size of fist or larger), pie tins.
Steel cans i.e. tuna cans, beans, soup etc.
Metal lids larger than the palm of your hand.
Glass
Glass bottles, jars.
Remove metal lids.
Paper
Office paper, newspapers, magazines, envelopes with windows.
Use shred boxes near print stations or CORE rooms that contain sensitive information. This shredded paper can be recycled separately through their vendor.
Paper coffee cups and paper coffee cup sleeves.
Milk cartons and aseptic/tetra pak containers (chicken broth, rice milk etc.)
Cardboard and paperboard
Cereal boxes, clean pizza boxes.
Flatten all cardboard and paperboard boxes.
Plastic: bottles, jugs, jars, tubs and containers
Do not flatten.
Attach plastic screw tops back on the container.
Compost
Food scraps:
vegetable and fruit scraps (no produce stickers)
coffee grounds (no filters)
meat
cheese
bread
bones
pits
3 gallon or smaller, CMS-certified compost bags.
Yard and plant trimmings - flower bouquets.
Landfill
Food service ware (compostable or otherwise):
plates
bowls
silverware
cups
straws
dressing containers
coffee cup lids
Greasy pizza boxes.
Paper towels, napkins, coffee filters, etc.
Wipes, baby wipes.
Chewing gum.
Flexible plastics:
plastic bags wrappers, chip bags etc.
bubble wrap or shipping pouches
Other miscellaneous plastics:
#7 PLA “compostable” plastics
packing peanuts
Styrofoam, expanded polystyrene
Shredded paper.
Paper ream wrappers.
Hard-to-recycle special bins
Battery boxes:
Located in all CORE rooms.
Be sure to tape terminals on required batteries and bag any corroded batteries separately.
