Boulder County Recycling Centers

The Helpful Hints page provides information on what is and is not recyclable at these centers.

Hours: 24 hours

Helpful Hints: Listed are a few categories with a few selected items that are accepted in each area. For a more specific outline of categories and items accepted, please call one of the numbers listed above.

Cans / Steel and Aluminum:

  • Aluminum and steel or tin cans: please rinse, labels are OK, please squeeze top of steel can shut
  • Aluminum foil
  • Aluminum pie pans and to-go containers: please rinse
  • No scrap metal Glass:

Glass:

  • Jars and bottles only Please rinse, Labels OK Separate by color at Drop-Off Centers
  • No dishes, mirrors, light bulbs, window glass, auto glass or drinking glasses
  • No lids in glass bin; glass jar lids are recyclable with steel cans
Magazines & Catalogs:
  • All magazines
  • No catalogs with glue bindings larger than 1/4" thick
  • No phone books in this category

Cardboard and brown paper bags:

  • Corrugated cardboard only in this category (two layers with waves between them) -Please flatten
  • No 6-pack holders, cereal boxes or similar boxes; these go in the Paperboard category

Paperboard and low grade mixed paper:

  • Cereal / cracker boxes and other similar boxes: no inside bags
  • Egg cartons: cardboard type only
  • Gift / shirt boxes
  • Hanging file folders
  • Shoe Boxes
  • Six-pack cartons and 12-pack boxes

Plastics:

  • #1 bottles and screw top jars
  • #2 milk jugs and any other translucent white beverage bottles with #2 on the bottom
  • #2 colored bottles(detergent bottles, shampoo & conditioner bottles, some cleaner bottles, and all #2 plastic bottles except motor oil bottles)
  • #5 Bottle

 

   
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