Acceptable Recycle Items
HARTFORD RECYCLES! It works because of YOU! With Single-stream recycling pilot program, you no longer need to separate your recyclables. Place these items in the Blue Recycling Containers:
- Glass food and drink bottles and jars (Empty & clean,
no food & no caps)
- Juice boxes and milk or juice cartons (Rinse and discard
caps and straws)
- Aluminum and steel cans including aerosol cans (No paint,
pesticides or other Hazardous Wastes)
- Plastic food and laundry product bottles, jugs and jars
(Size up to 3 gallons No. 1 through 7 plastics only - rinsed but
not crushed, please no plastic bags)
- Newspapers
- Corrugated cardboard (Must be uncoated and Flattened)
- Magazines & catalogs
- Mixed office paper
- Junk mail, home computer paper, writing paper, envelopes,
receipts, bills, etc. (Shred or tear up bills and receipts to
destroy personal information
- Cereal boxes, shoe boxes, pasta boxes, shirt cardboard and
soda and beer “refrigerator packs” and similar types of
cardboard (No foil coated cardboard material. Remove the
lining from cereal boxes and windows from pasta boxes).