Recycling

Transparent blue bags preferred. Clear bags are also accepted.

Acceptable materials for Paper Recycling:

• Clean and dry paper (printer paper, construction paper, receipt paper, etc).
• Newspapers and flyers
• Glossy magazines
• Catalogues
• Envelopes (with or without plastic windows)
• Paper egg cartons
• Paper drink trays
• Boxboard (cereal boxes, frozen pizza boxes, cracker boxes, etc).
• Paperback books
• Hardcover books (cover must be removed and placed in garbage)
• Shredded paper

Unacceptable materials for Paper Recycling

• Wet or dirty paper (let it dry and then recycle)
• Paper covered with food (can go in the green cart)
• Corrugated cardboard must be bundled separately from paper and container recycling
• Container recycling must be kept separate from paper recycling

All corrugated cardboard must be flattened. (Including appliance and pizza boxes). Keep separate from paper and container recycling.

For curbside collection: flatten cardboard boxes. Tie in bundles, approximately 2 ft x 3 ft x 8 inches and place next to your other recycling and paper recycling bags.

For apartment and condos: flatten cardboard boxes. Place boxes in cardboard bin or tote in your building's waste room.

If your electronic product has reached its end-of-useful life, you can recycle it free of charge through Recycle My Electronics. Collection sites include many Enviro Depots and return to retail (box store) locations.

Electronics that must be recycled and are not accepted for curbside collection include: 

• Display devices (tvs, monitors)
• Desktop computers and accessories (including mice, keyboards, cables, and internal components)
• Portable computers (laptops, notebooks, netbooks, tablets)
• Vehicle audio systems (amplifiers, equalizers, speakers, audio/video components)
• Home theatre in-a-box (HTB) systems (pre-packaged disc player/speaker/amplifier systems for use with video or television display)
• Home video / audio systems (VCRs, DVD and CD players, digital cable and satellite equipment, speakers, amplifiers, receivers, data projectors and similar audio/video system)
• Personal and portable video / audio systems (speakers, docks, portable stereos, CD players, audio recorders, tape players, MP3 players, digital cameras, video cameras)
• External storage drives and modems (External hard drives, including home media network hard drives and external optical disk drives as well as network-attached storage devices (NAS), external CD-ROM, DVD and Blu-ray drives.)
• Desktop and portable scanners (optical document/image scanning devices that reside on a desktop and portable devices. Including scanners)
• Global positioning system (GPS) (personal portable and vehicle) 
• Personal care appliances (hair cutting and drying devices, tooth care appliances, shavers, massagers) 
• Time and weight measurement devices (clocks, timers, kitchen scales, bathroom scales, luggage scales)
• Countertop appliances (microwave ovens, toasters, toaster ovens, fryers, hot plates, bread makers, induction cookers, pressure cookers, waffle irons, coffee makers, espresso makers and kettles, blenders, mixers, food processors, coffee grinders, juice extractors, food dehydrators and vacuum sealers)
• Air treatment appliances (portable fans, air purifiers, heaters, aromatherapy diffusers, humidifiers) 
• Small and full-size cleaning appliances (floor vacuums, carpet cleaners, robot vacuums, stick vacuums) 
• Garment care appliances (irons and steam cleaners)
• Phones (cell phones, corded phones, smart phone devices, pagers, PDAs)
• Electronic readers and video game devices (consoles, hand held devices, controllers, e-readers, digital books, joysticks)
• Desktop printers / multi functional devices (table top laser and LED printers, ink jet, dot matrix, thermal, dye sublimation and “multi-function” copy, scan, fax and print device, stand-alone desktop fax machines)