With single-stream recycling, you can place all your recyclables: newspaper, junk mail, magazines, office paper, milk and juice cartons and cardboard in with your plastic, aluminum and glass containers into one wheeled blue cart. No sorting!

Metal

• Aluminum cans
• Aluminum foil and trays
• Caps and lids from bottles, jars and steel/tin cans
• Paint cans (must be empty or dry)
• Spray cans (must be empty)
• Steel (tin) cans

Plastic (no bags or black plastics)

• Coffee cup lids
• Plastic bottles and caps, tubs and lids and containers, including clamshells, numbered 1-7
• Plastic buckets

Paper Clean, dry and unsoiled

• Bags (paper only, no plastic)
• Cardboard (non-waxed)
• Catalogs
• Computer and office paper (all colors)
• Egg cartons (cardboard)
• Envelopes and junk mail
• Magazines
• Milk and juice cartons
• Newspapers
• Packing or craft paper
• Phonebooks and soft cover books
• Sticky note paper
• Shredded paper (in a folded paper bag labeled "shredded paper" and placed inside your blue Recycle cart)
• Wrapping paper (non-metallic)

Glass

• Glass bottles and jars, lids ok

• Automotive parts and products
• Batteries and cell phones
• Black plastics and plastic cutlery
• Diapers
• Drinking glasses
• Flower and Nursery pots
• Food
• Garbage
• Garden Hoses
• Hazardous waste
• Juice, soup or soy milk type boxes with foil liner
• Light bulbs (Incandescents, Fluorescents, and HIDs)
• Plastic bags
• Plastic corks
• Plastic and wire hangers
• Plastic film, shrink wrap, pallet wrap and bubble wrap
• Soiled paper (paper cups, plates, napkins, towels, take-out boxes
  and greasy pizza boxes)
• Styrofoam packaging, food containers and packing peanuts
• Waxed Cardboard or Paper
• Window glass

Other Items:
There are several items that we can't take in our recycling program, but we don't want to see them end up in the landfill either. Visit our Hard to Recycle section to learn more.

To change the size of your cart, contact us.

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You can also visit RecycleWorks of San Mateo County for general recycling and waste reduction information.