Plastic

• Most curbside recycling programs accept plastics with the numbers 1-6 on them. Check with your municipal recycling collection agency for details on which plastics your collector can recycle. In general, milk and juice jugs, water bottles, soap and detergent bottles and other plastic food and household containers can be recycled. Rinse the containers and crush them, if possible, to minimize the space they take up. Remove and discard caps. Plastic bags, plastic toys and product packaging cannot be recycled in most curbside programs.
  
  

Paper and Cardboard

• Most kinds of paper can be recycled curbside. Clean newsprint and newspaper inserts, magazines, junk mail, brown paper bags, nonmetallic wrapping paper, computer paper, receipts, telephone books and greeting cards can all be recycled. Shredded paper also can be recycled -- place it in a paper bag to keep it from blowing away during collection. Cardboard and paperboard boxes, such as mailing boxes, cereal boxes and shoe boxes, can be flattened and recycled as well.
  
  

Metal

• Tin, steel and aluminum cans, such as soda, beer, canned food and soup cans, may be placed in the curbside recycling can. Rinse cans to remove food residue and tuck the lid inside the cans to minimize sharp edges. Aluminum foil is generally not recyclable curbside.
  
  

Glass

• Glass bottles and jars of all colors, including juice, beer and liquor bottles, and mayonnaise and spaghetti sauce jars, can be recycled curbside. Rinse bottles and jars to remove food residue and discard the lids. Drinking glasses, mirrors, window glass, Pyrex® and light bulbs are not recyclable curbside. Broken glass also generally cannot be recycled.