Recycling Information
Unacceptable Items
Recyclables Collected Weekly In Your Blue Cart
Please rinse food and beverage containers and crush plastics.
Extra recyclables that do not fit in the recycling cart may be
placed in boxes or paper bags and set next to cart.
Corrugated Cardboard
If cardboard cannot fit in your recycling cart, flatten and place it alongside your recycling cart. Cardboard pieces should be no larger than 3 feet by 3 feet. Tie large quantities of cardboard with string.
Household Batteries
Used Motor Oil
Place used motor oil in one-gallon plastic containers with tight fitting, screw top lids. (Milk and water jugs with pop-on lids are acceptable.) Lids must be taped securely! You may place up to two one-gallon containers next to your recycling bin for pickup.
Used Oil Filters
Place fully drained filters in a sealed, leak-proof, plastic bag and place curbside next to your recycling bins.
- Unmarked plastics, without a #1 through #7 (garden hoses, plastic toys, PVC piping, etc.)
- Food contaminated packaging such as pizza boxes.
- Napkins, facial tissues, paper towels, dishware.
- Styrofoam "peanuts" , bubble and plastic wrap, utensils.
- Light bulbs, window glass, ceramics.
- Clothes hangers, wire, rope, auto parts.
- Medical waste.
Recyclables Collected Weekly In Your Blue Cart
Please rinse food and beverage containers and crush plastics.
Extra recyclables that do not fit in the recycling cart may be
placed in boxes or paper bags and set next to cart.
- Cardboard
- Glass bottles and jars
- Juice Bags & Boxes
- Metal cans
- Milk Cartons
- Paper
- Plastic containers #1 - #7
- Plastic Bags
- Polystyrene (foam plastic)
- Please place in clear plastic
bag before putting in cart - Scrap Metal
Corrugated Cardboard
If cardboard cannot fit in your recycling cart, flatten and place it alongside your recycling cart. Cardboard pieces should be no larger than 3 feet by 3 feet. Tie large quantities of cardboard with string.
Household Batteries
- Place batteries in a clear, sealed plastic bag and set on top of the recycling cart.
- Sorry, we cannot accept cell phone batteries. Contact your cell phone dealer, or the Countywide Household Hazardous Waste line at (408) 299-7300 for recycling information.
- We cannot accept car batteries.
Used Motor Oil
Place used motor oil in one-gallon plastic containers with tight fitting, screw top lids. (Milk and water jugs with pop-on lids are acceptable.) Lids must be taped securely! You may place up to two one-gallon containers next to your recycling bin for pickup.
Used Oil Filters
Place fully drained filters in a sealed, leak-proof, plastic bag and place curbside next to your recycling bins.