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KEEP THESE RECYCLABLES OUT OF THE TRASH

Recyclable materials must be clean and may not include yard waste.  If recyclable materials are found in trash, the  trash will be rejected.  If you are a Ruane & Father customer, remember to place your paper recyclables into paper bags. Glass, metal and plastic should be put into a recycling bin.

Remember, recycling saves Sherborn Tax Dollars and our natural resources!     (December 2007)   

 

MATERIAL

WHAT TO RECYCLE

HOW TO PREPARE

 

NO - NO’s

PAPER

* All paper including newspapers, supplements, phone books, magazines, catalogs, shredded paper, and junk mail.  If you can tear it, it’s paper.

* Corrugated cardboard, paperboard (cereal, pizza boxes).

* Office paper.

* Envelopes, with or without windows.

* FOOD DEBRIS MUST BE REMOVED (Oil stains are OK).

* Place in paper bag.

* May be loose only if dropping off at Recycling Center.

* Cardboard boxes may be left whole only if dropping off at Recycling Center.  Staples, tape may be left on.

* No plastic bags.

* No string.

* No cereal box liners.

* No paper towels, tissues, or napkins.

 

 

 

 

GLASS CONTAINERS

 

* Unbroken clear, green, and brown bottles and jars.

* RINSE CLEAN!

* May mix with metal cans and plastic containers.

* No other glass items such as window glass, dishes, glasses, Pyrex, ceramics, mirrors or light bulbs.

* No plastic bags

METAL CONTAINERS

* Deposit and non-deposit beverage cans.

* Metal food cans.

* Aerosol cans.

* RINSE CLEAN!

* Labels may be left on.

* May mix with glass and  plastic containers.

* No paint or motor oil cans.

* Place large scrap metal in scrap metal box.

* No clothes hangers

* No plastic bags.
       

PLASTIC CONTAINERS

* All plastic containers labeled with recycling numbers within a triangle except Styrofoam™.

* Soda bottles, milk jugs, detergent bottles, yogurt containers.

 

* RINSE CLEAN!

* May mix with metal cans and glass.

* No plastics without the numbered recycling symbol.

 

* No motor oil
containers.

* No plastic bags.

* No Styrofoam™