Proper Recycling - Homes and Businesses
Curbside recycling is provided for all single-family homes and small apartment houses on public roads in Wayne County.
Containers
- Mix together in a box or a clear plastic trash bag.
- Clean containers of food and liquid.
- Throw away tops from glass and plastic containers.
- Flatten metal cans, gallon plastic containers and half-gallon
paper containers.
- License plates should be cleaned of major
dirt and defaced or cut so no one else can use them.
| Container Material |
Recycle |
Do Not Recycle |
|
Glass |
Food Containers only
|
- Window glass
- Light bulbs
- Drinking glasses
- Ceramics
- China
- Pyrex
|
Metal Cans and
Aluminum Foil |
Food Containers only
- Metal containers
- Aluminum pie pans
- Single-serving trays
|
- Aerosol cans
- Paint cans
- Pesticide or other chemical containers
|
| Plastic |
All types of Plastic with #1 - #7
- Food containers
- Personal care containers
- Household cleaning product containers
|
- Styrofoam trays, egg cartons or packaging
- Motor oil containers
- Containers without recycling logo number
|
Paper Milk Cartons
and Juice Boxes |
"Gable top" paper, milk and juice containers
|
|
Paper (Fiber) Products
- Mix together in a plastic grocery bag; office paper, envelopes, magazines
& catalogs, junk mail 
- Telephone books are accepted mixed with the newspaper.
- Fold or flatten paper.
- Place loose or in a paper grocery bag
- Put shredded paper in a clear plastic trash bag or a plastic grocery bag. Set bag out with Blue Box.
- Take covers off hard cover books, if possible. For large quantities, call the
Authority for arrangements.
Flat paper products may be mixed together and placed in or under the Blue Box
| Paper Material |
Recycle |
Do Not Recycle |
|
Office Paper or
Computer Paper |
- Green or blue bar
- Plain white
|
|
| Fine Office Paper |
- White or light stationary
- Photocopy paper
- White no-carbon-required
- Adding machine tapes
|
- Paper clips
- Coated fax paper
- Carbon paper
- Spiral wires
|
| Envelopes |
- White or light envelopes,
with or without "windows" |
- "Tyvek" (plastic)
envelopes |
Magazines and Junk
Mail |
- Magazines
- Catalogs
- Advertising flyers
- Colored paper
|
- Plastic wrappers
- Non-paper inserts
- Crayon-marked paper
|
| Boxboard |
- Light weight boxes
- light weight cardboard
packaging material
- Manilla envelopes
|
- Packing "peanuts" or
other Styrofoam |
| Cardboard |
- Clean cardboard with wavy mid layer
- Brown paper bags
|
- Tape and lables
- Staples
- Packing Styrofoam
|
Books and Bound
Materials |
- Telephone books
- Hardcover or Softcover books
|
|
| Newspaper |
- All inserts
- All weekly or daily publications
|
- Wet or dirty paper
- Wadded paper
|
| Shredded Paper |
- Bills, statements, invoices on uncoated paper
|
- Coated paper
- Paper Clips
- Wire Fastners
- Carbon Paper
|
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