Plastic Bottles #1 & #2
Soft drink, individual serving beverages, juice, most salad dressing, ketchup, peanut butter containers, milk jugs, water, shampoo, hair care & laundry bottles displaying the recycling logo with the number 1 or 2. Please remove all caps or lids, and rinse. Plastic containers may be crushed to conserve space. Not presently accepted are wide-mouth containers such as yogurt, margarine bowls and whipped topping containers; plastic flatware; deli-style clear plastic containers, cassette and compact disc cases; children's toys; oil jugs, plastic bags and plastic buckets.

Beverage & Steel food cans
Aluminum and bi-metal beverage cans, steel soup and food cans and lids, and empty aerosol cans are accepted. Please rinse and drain cans. Cans may be crushed to conserve space. Not presently accepted are pots or pans, coat hangers, and scrap steel.

Mixed Paper
Office paper & junk mail, including envelopes with small clear windows and staples. Any color and style of paper accepted, including glossy. Please remove plastic wrappers, carbon paper, paper clips and any paper that wrapped food. Confidentiality of paper dropped off cannot be guaranteed. 

Newspapers 
Newspapers, including glossy ad inserts, magazines, catalogs and telephone books (covers removed and tore into small sections appreciated). Acceptable to place in container with material in brown paper grocery sacks or loose. Remove ties or plastic bags.

Paperboard Boxes (Chipboard)
Food packaging containers, aluminum can beverage boxes, tissue, cereal & some toys packaging. No plastic wrap or bubble seal attached. Containers with food residue on them should be thrown away. Paperboard does not have any "waves" or air spaces in it. Flatten to save space.

Cardboard Boxes
Boxes and packages with a middle layer of wavy material in between two brown kraft sheets.  Most common are moving boxes, shipping packages, etc. Cardboard egg cartons accepted also. Not presently accepted are pizza boxes. Grease and food contamination on cardboard renders it unacceptable. Remove all packaging material (plastic bubbles, styrofoam, etc.). Can be flattened to save space.