COMPOST & RECYCLING Guide
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COMPOSTING
MUNICIPAL "FOOD PLUS" TOTERS (year-round)
ONSITE IN "COMPTOWN"—
• Cold composting (year-round)
• Hot composting (March thru August)
RECYCLING
COMMON HOUSE (Mailroom & NW Porch)— PHOTO VIEWS
• Mixed paper; Soft plastics; Household batteries
• Reusables: brown shopping bags, plastic bags and mailing packets
• Portable electronic devices, cords, chargers & cartridges (ink & laser)
• All unwanted, unbroken light bulbs (NW Porch)
WASTE CORRALS:
"What Goes Where" in the Waste Corrals (2-page flier also posted in the Mailroom.)
• PTAG toters (rigid Plastic, Tin, Aluminum, Glass)
• Cardboard dumpster (west side only)
• Food Plus toters & yard waste
• Mixed Paper toters
• Landfill dumpsters
• West side: “Clamshells” toter (smaller, gray)
• East side: Metal can
"RIDWELL" (items collected on Jaco & Barbara's west side porch)
Small metal bottle caps
PACKING MATERIALS (collected on Jaco & Barbara's west side porch)
• Bubble wrap (except small bits, which can go into Mailroom plastic)
• Bundles of reusable brown shopping bags
• Reusable plastic plant pots (all sizes)
• Packing paper (okay if crumpled)
• Air pockets
• Packing “peanuts”
• Any other types of clean package fill or cushioning