Residents can recycle clean, dry paper such as junk mail, printer & notebook paper, magazines, toilet paper tubes, cereal boxes, and corrugated cardboard boxes using the blue recycling cart. These items belong under the grey lid. Items must be placed directly into cart– no liner bags. Please flatten and cut down boxes first. Large or multiple boxes can also be bundled and placed next to the blue cart for collection.

Food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard trimming belong in the green organics cart. Peels, pits, seeds, stems, rinds, bones, skins, crusts, and all other food scraps are accepted; they can be fresh, frozen, cooked, or moldy! Greasy pizza and other paper takeout boxes, wet and food-soiled paper plates, cups, napkins and towels are accepted too. Place these items into your green cart along with yard trimmings like dry leaves, dead flowers, pulled weeds, cut grass and small branches. Paper liner bags may be used but “bio” or “compostable” plastic bags are prohibited.

After collection, materials collected from green carts will undergo anaerobic digestion at our Biogenic CNG Facility. The digestion process will create fuel for our collection vehicles and a pre-compost (or “digestate”) that will be hauled to a composting facility and transformed into a nutrient-rich soil amendment. Plastic (including “bio” or compostable varieties) inhibit the digestion process and can contaminate finished compost.

For waste reduction and sorting tips, please use our Sort Smart Recycling Guide and review our recent outreach materials.