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hether you’ve been an avid recycler for the past 30 years or just beginning, take a moment to review the following
W list of items that can and cannot be recycled in our county. MCPS recycles in accordance with Montgomery
County recycling regulations, therefore all the items that you recycle at your school can also be recycled at your MC home
and vice versa. The same rules apply to cleaning up after an instructional day in your classroom, lunch in the cafeteria, or
a holiday party at home. All of your plain, “flat” paper and boxes can go into the mixed paper recycling bin while all the
aluminum foil, foil serving trays, bottles, cans, and plastic containers should be placed in the commingled recycling bin.
As you review this list, you may find a few more items that you can include in your recycling bins. Remember, the more
we recycle, the less we throw away as trash. Recycling is as simple as 1, 2, 3!

MIXED PAPER COMMINGLED ITEMS

ACCEPTABLE PAPER ITEMS ACCEPTABLE PLASTIC, BOTTLES, CANS

 Empty milk and juice containers  Black plastic (PET Plastic #1) food containers
 Lunch trays, paper boat trays, paper plates and cups  Empty plastic milk, juice, and water bottles
 Newspapers (with inserts)  PET #1 Thermoform plastic packaging, such as clamshell
 Magazines, catalogs, junk mail, and windowed envelopes containers, trays, deli containers, lids, and caps
 Cardboard and paperboard boxes (including all cereal  #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7 rigid plastic containers, including
boxes without the liners, frozen food packaging, etc.) bottles, jugs, wide-mouth tubs, caps, salad and vegetable
 Corrugated cardboard (all boxes must be broken down) containers
 Spiral notebooks and composition books  Aluminum food and beverage containers
 Colored paper, theme paper, and used copier paper  Bi-metal steel/tin cans, such as soup and vegetable cans
 Books (including paperbacks, textbooks, and hardbacks)  Clean aluminum foil and aluminum pie pans
 Paper bulletin board decorations  Glass containers: brown, clear, and green glass containers
 Brown paper bags jars and bottles
 Telephone books  Empty non-hazardous aerosol cans
 Non-metallic wrapping paper  Plastic buckets with metal handles (such as floor wax and
 Shredded paper contained in a stripper)
sealed or tied clear plastic bag  Plastic flower pots
 Construction paper  Plastic drinking cups/glasses (stadium cups)
 Files and folders  Plastic 5-gallon water bottles
 Cardstock
UNACCEPTABLE PLASTIC, BOTTLES, CANS
UNACCEPTABLE PAPER ITEMS
 Styrofoam (cups, plates, bowls, to-go containers, and foam

 Paper towels, tissues packing material of any kind)
 Food contaminated paper plates  Materials contaminated with food waste or grease
 Food contaminated paper cups  Trash/food waste
 Metallic wrapping paper  Colored plastic film (such as candy and food wrappers or
bags, colored plastic bags)
 Laminated paper
 Plastic cutlery (forks, knives, spoons)
 Any paper contaminated with
food waste  Non-container glass (cookware, plate glass, window glass)
 Loose, shredded paper, and  Motor oil, anti-freeze, and pesticide containers
plastic-coated paper  Ceramics
 Construction and demolition material
 Vinyl siding
 Wood
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