Commingled Recycling
Accepted Items :
Please note: All listed items must be free of food residue and caps must be removed from glass and plastic bottles and jars. When in doubt, throw it in the trash (when a simple rinse will not remove the residue material such as peanut butter, nutella, etc.)
- Plastic Coded #1, #2, #5
- Glass bottles (all colors)
- Glass jars (all colors)
- Food cans
- Aluminum cans
- Plastic bottles (types 1,2 & 5) NO BOTTLE CAPS
- Clamshell containers (types 1, 2 & 5) - all others are garbage
- Milk & Soup Cartons/ flattened, caps removed
NOT Accepted :
Please note: Commingled items cannot be recycled in plastic bags at the curb or at the Recycling Center. Please empty any bags into the proper container.
Items listed as HHW are considered as Household Waste
- Empty aerosol cans (which contained a food, health or beauty products are garbage –all other products in aerosol cans are HHW )
- Microwave trays (the glass or plastic trays found in your microwave oven)
- Black Plastic Food Containers
- Plastic bags (Plastic bags can jam sorting equipment) Bring to local supermarket i.e. Kings, ShopRite or Foodtown
- Motor oil and antifreeze bottles (HHW)
- Hard plastic toys
- Plastic coat hangers
- Plastic drum and crates (hard plastic)
- Prescription bottles (white and brown)
- Plastic cups, knives, spoons and forks
- Window glass
- Drinking glasses
- Light bulbs (florescent and CFL) (HHW)
- Pyrex glass
- Glass candle jars (Yankee Candle etc.)
- Mirrors
- Glass vases
- Pool chemical containers (HHW)
- Pesticide containers (HHW)
- 5 gallon pails (spackle, driveway sealer and paint- bulk garbage)
- Clay or Ceramic Pots/Flower Pots
- No broken glass (garbage)
- No Styrofoam of any kind (garbage)
- Plastics coded #3, #4, #6, #7