Following these guidelines will help make sure that you efforts are not wasted. Take time to prepare recyclables properly or it will not be possible to recycle them they will be landfilled if dirty, wet or not acceptable. Glass Glass beverage and food containers should be rinsed well and lids removed, labels can be left on.
Clear glass is more widely collected than colored glass.
Back To Top Paper Newspaper - Newspapers should not be mixed with magazines, junk mail or other papers unless required by your recycling program. Don t leave on the ground beside the bin or put curbside on a rainy day wet newspaper is not recycled, it is landfilled. Corrugated cardboard - Corrugated cardboard is collected in many programs. Corrugated is the thick brown box material that many products are shipped in. It gets its name from the layered and corrugated make up of the box.