If a recycling dumpster is "contaminated" with trash, the entire load must be treated as trash. Our recycling process equipment is not able to separate trash from recyclable materials. Since a recycling truck picks up recycling dumpsters from numerous locations before the truck is full and taken to the recycling center, if one container is "contaminated" it can mess up the entire truckload. Help us keep contamination at a minimum. Become familiar with the "Do & Don't" list of items that can and cannot be recycled. Make this information available to janitorial staff, cafeteria management and staff, teachers and students.

DO RECYCLE

Notebook paper

Computer/copy paper

White & colored paper

Legal pads

Construction paper

Stapled paper

Drawing paper

File folders

Fax paper

Envelopes

Post-it notes

Brochures

Index cards

Catalogs

Newspapers

Phonebooks

Magazines

Flattened cardboard

Paperboard

DON'T RECYCLE

Pizza boxes

Waxed cardboard

Pencil shavings

Rubber bands

Napkins

Paper towels

Tissues

Hardbound books

Text books

Paper cups

Paper plates

Paper ream wrappers

Waxed paper

Heavily glued paper

Candy/gum wrappers

Food/chewing gum