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What Commingled (Plastic, Glass, and Metal) Items Can be Recycled?
- #1 through #7 plastics
- Rinse a bit (doesn’t have to be fully clean)
- No need to remove metal or plastic caps/lids, rings, and wraps/labels
- Large containers may be crushed
- As a rule of thumb, items should be “rigid plastic containers”
- All bottles and jars, clear and colored, deposit and non-deposit
- Rinse a bit (doesn’t have to be fully clean)
- No need to remove metal or plastic caps/lids, rings, and wraps/labels
- Steel (“tin”) and mixed-metal cans
- Rinse a bit (doesn’t have to be fully clean)
- Bottoms may be removed and cans may be flattened
- Labels may be left on
Do not include:
- Styrofoam, even if it has a recycling number on it (see other recycling options for handling Styrofoam)
- Plastic bags, even if they have a recycling number (see other recycling options)
- Paint cans (if empty and dry, place in regular trash)
- Scrap metal (see other recycling options)
- Ceramics
- Mirrors
- Plate glass
- Light bulbs
- Motor oil containers
- Pesticide/herbicide containers (even if they are "empty," people could get that stuff on them at the recycling facility)
- Aerosol containers
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