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Please Put These Items In Your BLUE BIN

In general the blue bin is for - Metals, Glass, Plastic & Cartons, this includes the following items: 

Aluminum & Tin Cans, Foil & Pie Plates, Metal Lids

Empty Steel Aerosol & Empty Latex Paint Cans

Scrap Metal

Glass Bottles & Jars

PETE Plastic - Containers such as soda and juice bottles (with the #1 in the triangle) 

HDPE Plastic Bottles & Jugs - Containers such as milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles (with the #2 in the triangle)

Milk Cartons & Juice Boxes

Please Do Not Recycle:

Containers that once held automotive fluids

Glass windows, cups, plates, Pyrex, dishes, ceramics, mirrors, light bulbs, crystal, broken glass

Type (2) HDPE plastics in tub form (yogurt & margarine containers, etc.)

Plastics with symbols (3) through (7)

Any plastic that has no number symbol

Plastic bags, plastic food wrap, potato chip and sandwich bags, etc.


Put These Items In Your GREEN BIN

In general the green bin is for mixed paper products which includes the following items: 

Newspaper

All Mail, Magazines & Catalogs

All Writing Paper

Phonebooks & Paperback Books

Clean Corrugated Cardboard

Other Types of Thin Cardboard (for example, cereal boxes, shoe boxes, etc.)

Please Do Not Recycle:

Frozen food boxes

Cardboard six-pack, half- and whole-case carriers

Paper towels, napkins, tissues

Pet food bags & boxes

Laundry detergent & soap boxes

Paper with wax or plastic coating

Any paper that is greasy or food-soiled

Please Set These Items Out Bundled :

Cardboard boxes tied with string, flattened and smaller than three feet by three feet.

Groundwork Providence
8 Third Street
Providence, RI 02906

phone 401.351.6440
fax 401.351.0118