Newspaper

Anything that comes in your newspaper can be recycled
with your newspaper. Place loose in bottom of bin. Please
do not mix newspaper with magazines or cardboard.
A newspaper can take more that 40 years to decompose
in a landfill if buried under 15–20 feet of garbage. Recycling
35 pounds of paper saves 115 gallons of water.


Corrugated (3-layer) Cardboard & Paper bags

Flatten, and place at curb side. Remove all wire and
plastic. Waxed cardboard cannot be recycled. No cereal
boxes, milk cartons or shoe boxes. Recycle brown paper
bags with your cardboard.
It is estimated that 145 pounds of cardboard is generated
each year for every person. That’s over 192,000
tons annually in Oregon.


Aluminum

Rince, clean and flatten foil and TV dinner trays. Beverage cans are accepted.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to
run a TV for 3 hours


Glass

Bottles and jars only (please rinse). Remove
all lids. Labels do not need to be removed. No
window glass, light bulbs, Pyrex or ceramics.
Separate colored from clear in brown paper bags.
Every glass bottle that is recycled saves
enough energy to light a 100 watt light bulb
for 4 hours. Oregon recycles 54% of its glass
containers.


Oil

Pour oil into non-breakable containers with
tight fitting screw-on caps (bleach or milk jugs).
No paint thinner or other hazardous liquids.
Every 100 gallons of recycled oil saves 65
gallons of new oil. One gallon of oil in a lake
will produce a five-acre oil sheen.


Plastic

Rinse thoroughly. PLEASE NO: Grocery bags,
styrofoam, or any bottle that has contained
petroleum products or poisons.
Plastic will take 700 years before it will even
start to decompose. Recycling one ton of plastic
saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.

Tin

Rinse thoroughly. Please keep seperate from aluminum. Reclaiming one ton of steel or tin saves 1.5 tons of ore. Tin recycling saves an estimated 2,600 kilowatt hours per ton.