Your at Home Guide to Recycling

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Recycling is an important part of everyday life. Built on the idea of taking the products that we use, breaking them down and then recreating another product out of the recycled materials, recycling can help us reduce and reuse the products that make our lives simpler. Buying recycled or reused products can also help you to save money! The 3R’s (Recycle, Reduce and Reuse) help us to preserve our environment through the reduction of harmful landfill waste.

But what can and can’t be recycled? This can sometimes be confusing as materials acceptable for recycling vary depending on where you live. Your municipal recycling program should be able to inform you of the items that they do and do not collect. However, here is a comprehensive list of items that can be recycled.

Paper Products
• Corrugated cardboard (such as moving and shipping boxes)
• Newspaper
• Magazines
• Catalogs
• Mixed paper (office paper and junk mail)
• Telephone books and paperback books
• Egg cartons
• Milk cartons

Glass Products
• Glass containers
• Windowpanes
• Mirrors

Metal/ Aluminum/ Tin products
• Aluminum cans
• Tin cans
• Scrap metal
• Aerosol cans
• Steel cans
• Soft drink cans

Plastic Products
• Plastic soft drink containers
• Peanut butter jars
• Juice containers
• Milk jugs
• Laundry detergent containers
• Plastic ketchup, mustard and honey containers
• Yogurt containers
• Juice boxes

Miscellaneous
• Ceramics
• Used oil and oil filters
• Automotive batteries