How do I put items out for recycling?
  • All glass, plastic and metal containers, and clean aluminum foil can be commingled with newspapers, cereal boxes, junk mail, magazines, small cardboard items and placed in your recycling bin (or in another like container such as a laundry basket or barrel, 35 gallons, 40 pounds max, if your bin is full).
  • Large Cardboard boxes should be flattened and tied in bundles or bundled with twine no larger than 3 feet by 3 feet by 6 inches thick.
  • Do not place any items in plastic bags and do not commingle paper with containers.
  • Place your recycling separate from your trash.
  • No plastic bags of any kind or polystyrene.

Learn more about recycling receptacles.

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1. Is there a comprehensive itemized disposal guideline?
2. Why should I recycle?
3. When is my trash and recycle collection day?
4. What about holiday week collections?
5. When should I put out my recycling?
6. Why didn’t the truck pick up my recycling?
7. Whom do I call if my trash, recycling, or yard waste is not picked up?
8. What can I recycle?
9. How do I put items out for recycling?
10. Do I need to rinse out my bottles and cans?
11. Do I need to separate cans, bottles and plastic containers from each other?
12. What about polystyrene, cartons (milk, juice, juice boxes etc), pizza boxes and microwave food boxes?
13. Can I put out more than one recycling bin?
14. Where can I get a recycling bin?
15. Does the City collect yard waste?
16. Is there a place where I can drop off my yard waste?
17. Does the City have a curbside pick up compost program?
18. How can I dispose of Christmas trees?
19. Is there a curbside Food Compost program?
20. Where can I recycle books, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes?
21. How can I stop junk mail?
22. How can I shred confidential documents?
23. Is there an electronics collection?
24. Is there a hazardous waste collection?
25. How do I dispose of items containing mercury?
26. How do I dispose of waste oil (used motor oil)?
27. What can I do with all my plastic bags?
28. Can I put out any size barrel for trash and recycling?
29. Can I throw away my propane tank?
30. Is there a limit to the amount of large (“Bulk”) items I can throw away?
31. Where can I bring ink and toner cartridges to recycle?
32. How do I dispose of pharmaceuticals?