Optional Recycling Collection for Commercial Customers
Businesses currently recycle less than 25% of what they throw out; meaning 75% is being disposed in a landfill. By recycling, you can significantly reduce your trash, and potentially, your trash service level, which may result in cost savings. You can also show your customers and employees that you care about your company's impact on the environment and increase your visibility as a community leader. This is an opportunity you can't pass up.
If you're interested in knowing what you're throwing away that could be recycled, contact us to schedule a waste audit.
Single-stream recycling is offered at a reduced rate and is even easier! Now, with single-stream recycling, you can place all your recyclables: newspaper, junk mail, magazines, office paper, paperboard and cardboard in with your plastic, Styrofoam, aluminum and glass containers into one wheeled blue cart or blue labeled recycle bin.
Please separately bag these items for recycling before placing them in the recycling cart:
- Styrofoam, block or molded, bagged and tied shut
- Styrofoam packing peanuts, bagged and tied shut
- Bubble Wrap, bagged and tied shut
- Plastic bags, bagged and tied shut
- Envelopes, junk mail opened, and multi colored paper, bagged and tied shut
- Shredded paper, bagged and tied shut
You CAN Recycle
Metal
Cardboard and Paperboard - (non-waxed)
Plastic - (no black bags or black plastics)
Paper - (Clean dry and unsoiled)
Glass
- Aluminum cans
- Aluminum foil, cleaned and bailed
- Caps and lids from bottles, jars and steel/tin cans
- Steel (tin) cans
Cardboard and Paperboard - (non-waxed)
- Egg cartons
- Cereal boxes, Flattened
- Corrugated cardboard, Flattened
- Detergent boxes, and paper towel rolls, Flattened
- Soda or beverage boxes, Flattened
- Paper Milk and juice cartons or boxes
- Pizza boxes, no food
Plastic - (no black bags or black plastics)
- Coffee cup lids
- Foam egg cartons
- Pellet Bags
- Plastic bags, bagged and tied shut
- Plastic bottles and caps lids off in cart separately, tubs and lids and containers, including clamshells, numbered 1-7 Plastic buckets
- Plastic wrap and bubble wrap, bagged and tied shut
- Styrofoam, block or molded, bagged and tied shut
- Styrofoam packing peanuts, bagged and tied shut
Paper - (Clean dry and unsoiled)
- Catalogs
- Computer and office paper, blue and black ink, bagged and tied shut
- Envelopes, junk mail opened, and multi colored paper, bagged and tied shut
- Magazines, shiny paper
- Newspapers, including newspaper inserts, Manila envelopes and folders
- Packing or craft paper
- Paper Bags, Phonebooks and paperback books
- Shredded paper, bagged and tied shut
- Wrapping paper, non-metallic
Glass
- Glass bottles and jars, lids off in cart separately
Please, No:
- Automotive parts and products
- Batteries and cell phones
- Black plastics and plastic cutlery
- Ceramics and mirrors
- Ceramic Flower and Nursery pots
- Condiment packets
- Diapers
- Drinking glasses
- Fluorescent-colored papers and sticky notes
- Food
- Food Wrappers
- Garbage
- Garden Hoses
- Hazardous waste
- Juice, soup or soy milk type boxes with foil liner
- Light bulbs (Incandescents, Fluorescents, and HIDs)
- Plastic Corks
- Plastic and wire hangers
- Soiled paper (paper cups, plates, napkins, towels, take-out boxes)
- Tires
- Trash
- Waxed Cardboard or Paper
- Window glass
- Wires, banding, chains, and cables
- Wood, concrete, asphalt, stones and bricks
Other Items:
There are several items that we can't take in our recycling program, but we don't want to see them end up in the landfill either. Visit our Hard to Recycle section to learn more.
Visit Recycle Del Norte for general recycling and waste reduction information.