Pizza Boxes

  • Small amounts of grease/cheese are okay
  • Boxes heavily soaked/soiled with grease/cheese should go onto compost or landfill
  • No food, sauce cups, condiment packets, etc
  • Please flatten

Paperboard

  • Single layer paper board can now be included with Cardboard 
  • If a cardboard bin is not close by, it can also go into a Papers recycling bin
  • Remove inner packaging (plastic wrap, foil, bags, etc)
  • Remove all food
  • Please flatten
  • No frozen food boxes

Cardboard

  • Please flatten
  • Remove all inside/outside packaging (plastic wrap, bubble wrap, styrofoam peanuts, etc)
  • No wax coated cardboad... that goes into the compost 

Paper Bags

  • Brown paper bags can be included with cardboard
  • If a cardboard bin is not around, they can go into a Papers recycling bin
  • Remove all inside materials 

Reduce-Reuse

Try keeping boxes for your shipping needs and upcoming moves, or try dontating them to your local thrift store. Cardboard can also be reused for craft projects. 

One way to Reuse a cardboard box