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With our commingled recycling program, you can put all of your recyclables in one container. All you need to remember is what you CAN and what you CANNOT put in your blue recycling cart.
64-Gallon Cart
appx. 31.75" x 24.25" x 41.75"
Residents can request additional recycling carts at no additional cost.
Soiled disposable plates or cups, paper towels, tissue, carbon paper, plastic bags (NO single-use plastic grocery bags, newspaper delivery bags, or chip/snack bags), ceramics, drinking glasses, Styrofoam packing peanuts, mirrors, batteries, light bulbs, clothing, or shoes.
Recycle all food and beverage containers—clear and colored glass. No need to remove labels.
Flatten or cut boxes to a size that fits comfortably inside the recycling cart.
Recycle your newspaper and everything that is delivered with it—including inserts, coupons, etc.
Recycle aluminum and steel cans—including clean & dry paint cans and empty aerosol cans. Also, recycle aluminum foil.
Recycle all rigid plastics, such as bottles, jugs, and jars, marked to , and all beverage containers labeled “CA Redemption Value” or “CA Cash Refund,” including:
Look on the bottom of a plastic item, and you should find the “chasing arrow” symbol with a number in the center like the two shown
( to ).
*All food and beverage containers should be EMPTY:
no/minimal food residue and no liquids remaining.
Recycle virtually all clean and dry paper, including: writing paper (all colors), computer paper, Xerox paper, “no carbon required” (NCR) forms, catalogs, brochures, magazines, junk mail, phone books, post-it type notes, and shredded paper (place shredded paper inside paper bags to contain shreds). EDCO accepts them all, PLUS if those items have staples, window envelopes, or even those little metal clasps on legal envelopes, they’re OK, too! But please, no large metal items like clasps on Acofastener notebooks or 3-ring binders.
You can also recycle cereal boxes and other clean food packaging, including cake boxes, flour bags, frozen dinner boxes, paper egg cartons, and soda/beer 12-pack carrying boxes. You can also recycle paper grocery bags, gift boxes, shoe boxes, paper gift wrap, calendars, and core tubes from paper towels, etc.
Recycling Alternatives:
Items too large to fit in the blue recycling cart can be dropped off at no cost at any of our Buyback Centers.
There have been global concerns over the quality of recyclable materials, and these expectations are not going away.
In January 2018, China no longer accepted 26 types of recyclable materials into their country. Nearly 60% of recyclable materials generated in California were exported to China and other Asian markets. As a result, processing mills worldwide are demanding that recycling facilities ship only recyclables with less than one percent contamination, which is a significant change in material requirement standards. A minimal amount of contamination, such as garbage, green waste, or other debris, can ruin a complete load of recyclable material. The quality of recyclable material can impact your costs should contamination require recycling to be dumped as trash.
Please help us prevent and reduce the contamination of recyclable materials by reviewing EDCO’s guidelines and the acceptable items in our residential recycling program.
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