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NOT Recyclable: These items can NOT be recycled in any category and should be thrown away!

1. Paper Items: "Neon" flourescent or dark-colored paper, sheets of address labels or stickers, Kraft or Tyvek envelopes, paper towels/plates/cups, pet food/charcoal/fertilizer bags, waxed paper, waxed cardboard, frozen food container boxes, facial tissues/napkins, wraping & tissue paper, carbon paper, photographs
2. Containers: Drink pouches/straws, ceramics, vases, dishes, drinking glasses, light bulbs, mirrors, window or auto glass, plastic lids/caps, plastic vitamin or prescription bottles, plastic motor oil bottles, plastics #3 - #7, plastic bags, plastic cups, "to go" containers

YES Recyclable: These items can be recycled!

1. Cardboard/brown paper bags: please flatten
2. Magazines/catalogs
3. Newspaper: includes newspaper and inserts only
4. Office paper/opened mail: includes adding machine tape, blueprints, brochures/pamphlets, computer printouts, FAX paper, file folders (manila or pastel-colored only), greeting cards, index cards, letterhead, loose-leaf paper, memos & sticky notes, legal pad paper and pastel-colored paper & envelopes. No need to remove these: paper clips, metal fasteners, staples, stamps and address labes on envelopes, windows in enveopes, sticky notes, rubber bands, tape, plastic tabs, wire or plastic spiral bindings
5. Paperboard: includes cereal/cracker boxes (throw away inside bag), gift/shirt boxes, hanging file folders, paper egg cartons, paper tubes (e.g. paper towel tubes), shoe boxes, six-pack and 12-pack cartons/boxes, soap/facial tissue boxes
6. Phone books
7. Commingled (food and beverage) containers include:
   1. Aluminum - do not cruch or flatten cans, ball clean foil to 2 inches or larger or flatten (no small balled up foil, please)
   2. Glass bottles & jars - please rinse, labels are okay, remove and recycle metal lids/caps, avoid breaking glass
   3. Steel/tin cans - please rinse, pinch the open end of cans closed, labels are okay, empty aerosol cans are okay
   4. Plastic #1 (bottles, jugs, screw top jars only), plastic #2 (bottles, jugs only) - includes milk jugs, soda bottles, most shampoo bottles, etc. Please rinse, flatten gallon jugs and bottles 1-liter and larger.
   5. Paper milk/soy cartons/drink boxes - rinse and flatten

Compost Info:
Boulder County Energy Conservation Center 303-441-3278
Helpful Hints: Yard waste such as fallen leaves, grass clippings, weeds, and the remains of garden plants also make excellent compost. You can add almost anything organic to your compost, such as fruit and vegetable matter, eggshells, and coffee / tea grounds. Avoid adding meat scraps, oil, grease, bones and dairy products.

Diverting Construction Materials: Resource
2000 / Boulder Energy Conservation
303-441-3278 for drop-off or to purchase building materials.
Helpful Hints: Save ad reuse materials on the job-site where possible. Set aside reusable materials for donation or sale to local reuse centers. Separate materials at the job site for effective recycling by setting up separate dumpsters to recycle cardboard, ferrous and nonferrous metal, and wood waste.

For even more information on salvaging building materials contact:
Reuse Development Association @ 317-631-5395 or
www.redo.org; the United Building Materials Association, 877-221-8262
www.ubma.org for the reuse store nearest you.
To donate salvage materials for a tax write-off:
Habitat for Humanity ReStores 800-HABITAT.

303.447.8930
Call for a free estimate
trashman@boulderhauling.com