What to Include in Your Blue Bags

Paper-based products:

• Newspapers (with inserts)
• Magazines
• Telephone books
• Computer paper
• Junk mail
• Brown grocery bags
• Small pieces of cardboard and pressed fiber (such as cereal boxes, shoe boxes, clean pizza boxes, tissue boxes)*

*Large pieces of cardboard can be placed directly in your trash cart. It will be separated at Recycle City.

Containers:

• Aluminum cans*
• Glass bottles and jars**
• Plastic containers, clear or colored, with a recycle symbol on them (no #4, #6 or black plastic, please)**
• Tin cans

*Aluminum cans may also be brought to the Aluminum Buy-Back area at Recycle City to receive the going rate for aluminum. Groups may also set up accounts to be credited when members bring in aluminum cans.

**Please leave lids on the bottles, jars and containers.

Do Not Include These Items in Blue Bags:

• No light bulbs, plate or window glass, mirrors, dishes, Pyrex or Corning Ware, lead crystal or ceramics.
• No yard waste. Learn how you can recycle yard waste curbside with your Brown Cart.
• No wet newspapers or contaminated paper, such as paper towels, tissues, food wraps and sanitary products.
• No plastic containers marked with a #4 or #6 and no black plastic, please. This includes drink containers from convenience stores.
• No needles or sharps.
• No plastic film.
• No plastic grocery bags.
• No newspaper sleeves. (Always take paper items out of plastic sleeves before recycling them.)

How Do I Get Blue Bags?

Single-family Residents:

Enroll now in the Blue Cart Crew.

To receive a new roll of Blue Bags, tie a bag on the handle of your trash cart. When we pick up your trash, we will leave you a new roll of Blue Bags.

Multi-family Residents:

Enroll now in the Blue Crew for multi-family homes. The Blue Crew is for residents who live in apartments and condos with a community dumpster. Learn more about our multi-family recycling program.

Recycle Stations (aka Backboards)

Blue Cart Crew members are entitled to two “Recycle Stations” (also known as backboards). As you can see in the photo above, these recycle stations make it easy for you to place paper and boxes in one Blue Bag and containers in another Blue Bag. Blue Cart Crew members can pick up two recycle station backboards at Recycle City during regular business hours.