Please rinse and sort your plastics into the following categories before the event:

  • Plastic bags (dry cleaning, grocery store sacks, bubble wrap, cereal liners, Mylar, six pack rings, tortilla chip bags)
  • Plant containers 4 inches or smaller and trays (please knock dirt out ahead of time)
  • Please rinse and separate plastics with numbers by each number separately (bags and plant containers go in the first two categories, no Styrofoam food trays even if they have a number).
  • plastics without numbers (Bottle caps, drink lids, DVD's, CD’s, CD cases, straws, lawn/patio furniture, kids\' toys (think slides!), pet igloos, laundry baskets, kiddy pools, & more)
  • Reusable Plastic Items. -  Be sure and drop by this section to see if you might find a useful item you would like to bring home.
We cannot accept
no Styrofoam block, Styrofoam peanuts, Styrofoam food trays or Styrofoam egg cartons even if they have a number   
no "biodegradable" plastic or plastic that says PLA 7 on the bottom (this is a contaminant for plastics recycling)
no plastic with metal inside (no car seats/highchairs, handpumps for spray bottles and lotion have a metal spring in them)
no VHS or cassette tapes
no PVC pipe
no small toys
no food-contaminated or dirty plastic
no plastic that contained motor oil, herbicides or pesticides (a thin layer of dried paint is okay)

 

Recycle these at home (not at the roundups!):
  • 6 oz or larger bottles
  • 4 inch or larger flower pots
  • 6 oz or larger margerine or yogurt containers
  • Hand buckets.
Not sure if your item falls under any of these categories? Contact us or bring it along and we'll check it out. We do ask that if we can't take it that you haul it back away. (The volunteers do not have garbage service at these events!!)

For more information contact us 
 

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