What I Recycle

Recycling Offered by My Trash Hauler

Plastic bottles and tubs, all kinds, but no lids

Glass bottles and jars and metal lids

Cans, all kinds, and lids

Aluminum foil

Milk cartons

Office paper

Magazines

Light cardboard

Corrugated cardboard

Recycling at the Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials (CHARM, Boulder, CO)

Electronics of all kinds, including cell phones

Plastic bags (clean and dry)

Large #2 plastic (laundry baskets, for example)

Styrofoam blocks for packing

Scrap metal

Clothing and other fabrics and shoes (but no underpants!)

Books

Compostables (corn-plastic packaging, food waste, compostable plates and flatware)

Construction Reuse (via Craigslist)

Cabinets from our old kitchen

Countertops from our old kitchen

Other Recycling

CDs and DVDs and VHS tapes and cassettes (at Green Disk)

Eco-Dent toothbrush heads (I’ll recycle a bunch of them at once someday by returning them to the company; haven’t sent them in yet)

Styrofoam peanuts (take to UPS Store or compost)

Plastic pots for plants (at Echter’s Garden Center)

Toilets (at a now-closed store in Boulder; if I have any more porcelain to get rid of, I’ll take it to the CHARM)