Acceptable/Unacceptable Trash Materials for Curbside Pickup
Note: This information is from the GFL ("Green For Life") website as of 02/09/2018. Please check with GFL directly for any changes or questions.
Acceptable Materials
- Newspapers - Remove bags, strings, rubber bands
- Cardboard & paper bags - Flatten cardboard & cut into pieces. No wax coated cardboard
- Magazines & catalogs - Any size magazine
- Junk mail - Envelopes, flyers, brochures, postcards, etc.
- Office paper - All types & sizes
- Phone books - all types and sizes
- Paperboard - No wax coated paperboard
- Plastic jugs, bottles - #1 and #2
- Household plastic - #3 thru #7, empty containers only
- Paper milk and juice cartons - Empty only
- Pots and pans - Kitchen cookware
- Aluminum cans - Empty only
- Steel & tin cans - Empty only
- Clear & colored glass - Empty only
- Clean pizza boxes
- Clean garden plastics
- Flattened cardboard boxes
- Empty rinsed containers
- Leave caps on plastic bottles
- OK to leave staples, clips, labels, stamps, spiral bindings, and metal fasteners on paper products
Unacceptable Materials
- Plastic bags
- Foam containers or products (Styrofoam)
- Wire hangers
- Window panes, mirrors, ceramics, Pyrex dishware
- Organic material & food waste
- Electronic waste -- batteries, cell phones, computers, etc.
- Paint, pesticides, oil, cleaners
- Waxed cardboard
- Needles or syringes
- Hazardous waste
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