Guidelines for Recyclables
The following is a list of all items recyclable
with Eco-Cycle and how to sort and prepare them for recycling.
To find out how and where to recycle, go to "How
to Recycle in Boulder County".
CANS/Steel
and Aluminum
- Aluminum and steel or tin cans: please rinse,
labels are OK, please squeeze top of steel can shut
- Aluminum foil
- Aluminum pie pans and to-go containers: please
rinse
- NO SCRAP METAL with the Aluminum and Steel
please.
CARDBOARD
AND BROWN PAPER BAGS
- Corrugated Cardboard only in this category
(two layers with waves between them)
- Please flatten
- NO 6-pack holders, cereal or similar boxes;
these go in the Paperboard category
GLASS
- Metal lids OK--please detach from jars
- Please rinse, labels OK
- NO dishes, mirrors, light bulbs, window glass,
auto glass or drinking glasses
MAGAZINES
& CATALOGS
- All magazines
- NO catalogs with glue bindings larger than
1/4" thick
- NO phone books in this category
MILK
CARTONS AND JUICE BOXES
- Remove and discard straws
- Rinse and flatten
- NO plastic milk jugs in this category
- NO paper cups
NEWSPAPER
- And the inserts that come with the paper
- NO other papers, boxes, bags or string
PAPERBOARD
AND LOW GRADE MIXED PAPER
- Cereal/cracker boxes and other similar boxes:
no inside bags
- Egg cartons: cardboard-type only
- Gift/shirt boxes
- Hanging file folders
- Paper bags, shopping bags (not brown, these
go with corrugated cardboard)
- Paper tubes of any size or thickness (paper
towel, toilet paper, wrapping paper)
- Ream wrappers
- Shoe boxes
- Six-pack cartons and 12-pack boxes
THESE PAPERS ARE NOT
RECYCLABLE
- PAPERS CONTAMINATED WITH FOOD, BEVERAGE OR
HAZARDOUS WASTE RESIDUES
- Carbon paper
- Foil lined boxes
- Paper and hardback books
- Pet food, charcoal or fertilizer bags
- Photographs
- Tyvek envelopes (used for overnight mailing)
- Used tissues, napkins or paper towel
PHONE
BOOKS
PLASTICS
- #1 Bottles and screw-top jars
- #2 Milk jugs and any other translucent white
beverage bottles with a #2 on the bottom
- #2 Colored bottles (detergent bottles, shampoo
& conditioner bottles, some cleaner bottles, all #2 colored
plastic bottles except motor oil bottles)
- #5 bottles
- #2 and #5 tubs and cups (includes most dairy
tubs like yogurt and margarine and commemorative cups from fast
food restaurants)
- NO MOTOR OIL BOTTLES
- NO LIDS
- Flatten bottles
- Nest tubs and cups
- For plastic bag recycling, click here
- More information on
plastics...
SCRAP
METAL
- NO air conditioners or refrigerators
SORTED
MAIL & OFFICE PAPER
Open the envelope and take out the contents. Discard
stickers and decals, foil embossed paper and Tyvek (overnight) envelopes.
Everything else you can throw together in the Sorted Mail and Office
Paper category, including:
- Adding machine tapes
- Brochures
- Computer printouts
- Copy and typing paper
- Envelopes (windows, stamps and labels are all
OK)
- FAX paper
- Greeting cards
- Index cards
- Loose leaf paper
- Letterhead
- Manila or pastel colored folders
- Memos and Post-it notes
- Pamphlets
- Pastel legal pad paper
- Slick or glossy ads
- Stationery and pastel colored paper
NOTES
- We cannot take any type of Fluids. No
Oil, Chemicals, etc.
- Please call the Boulder County Household Hazardous Waste Facility
at 303.441.4800 to make an appointment to safely dispose
of household hazardous waste.
TIPS ON REDUCING JUNK MAIL
- Write to:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735-9008
Send sample labels from unwanted mail that show all the variations
of your name and address.
Or:
- Send the mailing label back to the sender requesting
to be taken off their mailing list or call them if they have a
toll-free 800 number.
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