Detailed Recycling Guidelines

Specific items accepted/not accepted at our Wood Road Recycling Drop-off are listed below according to container.

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MIXED PAPER

Acceptable materials:

  • Newspaper (including inserts)
  • Magazines
  • Catalogs
  • Phone books
  • Softcover books
  • “Junk” mail (direct mail flyers, postcards, etc.)
  • Envelopes
  • Printing and writing papers

Unacceptable materials:

  • Plastic bags
  • Paper bags (put in cardboard container)
  • Hardcover books
  • Paper plates
  • Napkins/paper towel/toilet paper
  • Gift wrap
  • Brown packaging paper
  • Receipts/receipt paper
  • Wrappers/bags/packaging
  • String and/or twine
  • Stickers and/or sticky notes
  • Paper with coins plastic or other items stuck to it

CORRUGATED CARDBOARD & BROWN PAPER BAGS

Acceptable materials:

  • Cardboard boxes
  • Cardboard inserts
  • Brown paper bags

Unacceptable materials:

    • Boxboard (put in boxboard container)
    • Boxes containing plastics, liquid or food residue
    • Gift wrap
    • Wax-coated or foil-coated boxes
    • Boxes meant to go in the refrigerator or freezer (frozen dinner boxes, waffle boxes, butter boxes, etc.)
    • Pizza boxes
    • 6-, 12- or 24-pack beverage cases
    • Foam, food residue, liquids

CLEAR GLASS

Acceptable materials:

  • Clear beverage bottles
  • Clear food jars
  • Clear Mason jars

Unacceptable materials:

  • Colored glass jars or bottles (put in colored glass container)
  • Jar/bottle lids
  • Plastic bags
  • CRT glass (monitors or TV screens)
  • Light bulbs
  • Window glass
  • Auto glass
  • Mirrors
  • Glassware
  • Ceramics
  • Dishes

COLORED GLASS

Acceptable materials:

  • Any color beverage bottles
  • Any color food jars
  • Any color Mason jars

Unacceptable materials:

  • Clear glass jars or bottles (put in clear glass container)
  • Jar/bottle lids
  • Plastic bags
  • CRT glass (monitors or TV screens)
  • Light bulbs
  • Window glass
  • Auto glass
  • Mirrors
  • Glassware
  • Ceramics
  • Dishes

BOXBOARD

Acceptable materials:

  • Tissue boxes
  • Cereal boxes
  • Other dry goods (food) boxes
  • Boxboard tubes (found inside of toilet paper, paper towel, gift wrap, etc.)
  • Boxboard egg cartons (not foam)

Unacceptable materials:

  • Plastic bags
  • Cardboard (put in cardboard container)
  • Boxes containing plastics, liquid or food residue
  • Wax-coated or foil-coated boxes
  • Boxes meant to go in the refrigerator or freezer (frozen dinner boxes, waffle boxes, butter boxes, etc.)
  • 6-, 12- or 24-pack beverage cases
  • Disposable coffee/paper cups
  • Pizza boxes
  • Canisters
  • Cartons (milk, juice, broth, etc.)

MILK JUGS

Acceptable materials:

  • Any size plastic milk jugs with seam

Unacceptable materials:

  • Lids
  • Plastic bags
  • Foam
  • Clear plastic
  • Colored plastic jugs or tubs

MIXED PLASTIC BOTTLES, JUGS, TUBS & CONTAINERS

Acceptable materials:

  • Shampoo/soap bottles
  • Cleaning product bottles
  • Tubs (margarine, sour cream, cottage cheese, etc.)
  • Microwave trays
  • Yogurt cups
  • Plastic clamshell take out containers
  • Plastic cups

Unacceptable materials:

  • Plastic bags
  • Plastic wrap/packaging
  • Plastic tubes
  • Pumps or spray nozzles
  • Motor oil bottles
  • Cartons
  • Foam containers/packaging
  • Syringes
  • Medical waste
  • Landscaping items
  • Garden hoses/rubber
  • Plastic furniture
  • Plastic toys
  • Kiddie pools
  • Buckets
  • Laundry baskets
  • Barrels
  • Liquids
  • Straws
  • Plastic drink lids

METAL CANS & ALUMINUM

Acceptable materials:

  • Tin cans
  • Aluminum cans
  • Aluminum foil
  • Foil trays and containers

Unacceptable materials:

  • Metal hangers
  • Fencing
  • Appliances
  • Paint cans
  • Aerosol cans
  • Silverware
  • Batteries (rechargeable or single-use)
  • Electronics
  • Scrap metal
  • Containers with food residue