The recycling facility was made possible through a partnership with Meridian Magnesium Products of America Inc. Located at the Public Works Dept., 301 Market St. the facility is ready for your materials:
Acceptable Material |
How To |
Residential Mixed Paper: Including newspaper, magazines, direct “junk” mail, first class mail, other printing and writing papers, envelopes, and phone books. NO: Plastic bags, string, twine, stickers, coins, or hard cover books. |
Place in the separate container for newspaper only. |
Plastic Bottles, Jugs & Tubs (#1 thru #7): Containers with #1 through #7 symbols on bottom accepted, including bottles and jugs with narrow, threaded neck, plastic tubs (margarine, sour cream, cottage cheese, etc.), microwave trays and yogurt containers. NO: Plastic bags, paper wax-coated milk or juice cartons, styrofoam containers/packaging, syringes, garden hose/rubber, furniture, pools, toys, or free flowing liquids. |
Place in separate compartment marked for milk jugs and detergent containers. |
Tin cans & aluminum: Rinse the cans, remove any paper label. |
Place in separate compartment marked for tin cans and aluminum. |
Clear glass jars: Rinse, put metal lids with tin cans. Do not remove label. No brown glass. No green glass. No drinking glass. No window glass. No ceramic.
Brown glass jars: Rinse, put metal lids with tin cans. Do not remove lable. No clear glass. No green glass. No drinking glass. No window glass. No ceramic. No Pyrex. |
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Place in separate compartment marked for clear glass.Place in separate compartment marked for brown glass of the open top container. |
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