If it can be recycled, it isn’t garbage and should be diverted from the Transfer Station. The yellow bin program accepts cardboard, tin and aluminium cans, all mixed paper (including newspaper and magazines) and plastic milk jugs (no cartons).
Grocery bags and household plastics numbered 1 – 6, along with mixed recyclables (cardboard, mixed paper, newspaper, plastic milk jugs and tin and aluminium cans) are accepted in the yellow bins. Plastic is extremely sensitive to contamination, so please make sure your plastics are well rinsed. If it’s a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 it will be accepted. Grocery bags will also be accepted. The only exception is Styrofoam – even though it is a 6, it is NOT recyclable.
The recycling numbers are a uniform way of classifying the different types of plastic and it aids recyclers in the sorting process. Note that sometimes other numbers are found on the bottom of plastic containers, but only numbers inside the recycling symbol are valid for recycling purposes.
The following plastics are not recyclable:
Look for the number inside the recycling symbol on the bottom or side of your container.
Because the regular yellow bins are sorted by hand, glass must go in a separate, specially marked bin for GLASS ONLY. These bins are easy to spot because they have a flat top with two holes cut in the top.
These bins are for container glass only. That means only container glass that holds food and beverages such as jam jars; pickle jars, olive oil jars, or wine bottles. These containers must be well rinsed with lids removed before putting glass containers in the recycling bin as metal lids cannot be recycled in the yellow bins.
The following are NOT accepted in the glass bins:
These materials contaminate the whole load and the entire bin has to be landfilled when the wrong glass is dumped in the bin.