WHAT GETS RECYCLED AND HOW?

The following items are collected curbside during regularly scheduled recycling pickups.

COMMINGLED RECYCLABLES
Place metal cans, glass and plastic bottles in the blue, 20-gallon round container provided by the MCIA. Any overflow can be placed in your own unlidded plastic or metal container (no larger than 32 gallons in capacity). Please do not overfill containers.

WHAT HOW
Metal – Tin, steel, aluminum and bi-metal cans (such as soda, beer, canned pet food, soup and tuna cans.) Rinse the cans and crush them to maximize capacity. We take the lids, too.
Glass – Glass bottles and jars of all colors (such as juice, soda, beer and liquor bottles and mayonnaise and spaghetti sauce jars). Rinse the bottles and jars. Remove the lids and place them in the trash for collection with your regular garbage.
Plastic – Both #1 PETE and #2 HDPE containers (such as milk and juice jugs, water bottles and laundry detergent, shampoo and soda bottles.)

Check the bottom of the container to make sure the plastic is either #1 PETE or #2 HDPE. Rinse the containers and crush them to maximize capacity. Remove the caps and place them in the trash for collection with your regular garbage.








Items that are NOT accepted:
Drinking glasses, window glass, mirrors, Pyrex® dinnerware, lightbulbs, plastic toys, plastic packaging, aluminum foil, gardening or garbage plastics, polystyrene or styrofoam (such as plastic cups or food trays).

NEWSPAPERS & MIXED PAPER

WHAT HOW

Newspaper - Clean newsprint and newspaper inserts only.




 

 Tie the newsprint with string or sturdy cord in bundles no higher that 12 inches. Place the bundles at the curb next to your recycling bins.

DO NOT :

  • Place newspapers in the blue, rectangular mixed-paper container
  • Place newspapers in paper or plastic bags
  • Tie junk mail or mixed paper in your newspaper bundles

Junk mail and mixed paper must be separated from your newspapers because these materials are sent to different processors to be recycled.

Mixed Paper - Magazines, junk mail, brown paper bags, nonmetallic wrapping paper, office records, computer paper, file folders, receipts, telephone books, softcover books, hardcover books with covers removed, cereal and other non-wax-coated food boxes, tissue boxes, shoe boxes, gift boxes and greeting cards.

Place shredded paper in paper bags or blue rectangular recycling bin.

Place mixed paper in the blue rectangular bin. Close the lid tightly when you leave the bin at the curb. Flatten boxes to maximize capacity.

Not Accepted:

  • Pizza boxes
  • Mixed paper in leaf bags

Note: The maximum number of recycling bundles of newspaper and/or corrugated cardboard that the collector will pick up from individual households, each collection, is nine (9).


CORRUGATED CARDBOARD & TEXTILES

WHAT HOW

Corragated Cardboard - layered cardboard with a center that is shaped into ridges, folds or grooves (such as shipping boxes and the packaging for most appliances or larger household items.)

Flatten the cardboard and tie the sheets into stacks no larger than 24 inches square and 24 inches high.

NOT accepted: Cardboard in bundles larger than 24 inches square.

Textiles - Clean, dry clothing or fabric larger than 12 square inches and other recyclable textiles such as shoes, belts or handbags.

 

Place clothing or fabric that measures larger than 12-square inches in the textile bag provided by the MCIA. Close the bag securely and leave it at the curb with your other recyclables. The collection crew will leave a replacement bag in its place.

Items that are NOT accepted: Comforters, pillows and rugs.

If you do not receive a replacement textile bag, or if you need additional bags, call your municipal recycling coordinator (his or her name and number are listed on the specific page for your municipality) or call the MCIA Recycling Hotline at (800) 488-MCIA (6242) or e-mail us.