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RED & BLUE Go Out As Two
What to recycle...

Newspaper, Junk Mail, Brochures, Flyers, Magazines, Catalogues, Telephone books, Paperback Books & Hard cover books can all be placed in your red recycle box for collection.

How to Prepare...

Please remove any plastic inserts or wraps. Remove COVERS from hardcover books and discard.
MIXED PAPER...

What...Cereal, pasta, cookie, laundry detergent, tissue and shoe boxes. Pet food bags, sugar & flour bags, brown paper, toilet/paper towel tubes, office paper, envelopes, paper egg cartons, greeting cards, paper gift wrap etc.

How... Flatten boxboard containers, remove plastic inserts and place smaller paper items in brown paper bags or boxboard boxes (such as cereal boxes) to keep them from blowing out of your red box and messing up your neighbourhood.
CARDBOARD...

What... Cardboard Boxes, shipping boxes, clean pizza boxes etc.

How... Scrap any food material off pizza boxes. Stack smaller boxes inside larger boxes. Break down large appliance or packing boxes so they are no larger than 30"x30"x8".

All Paper Products should be placed in your RED BOX. Containers (bottles and cans) should be placed in your Blue Box(es).

Both your RED BOX and Blue Box(es) should be placed out side by side on your scheduled recycling day.

For those residents who have already been separating their materials and/or are using more than two Blue Boxes, please keep up the great work.

Thanks for your support!

Please note: If you cannot fit all your paper products in your Red Box, please place the overflow in a Blue Box or another acceptable container. DO NOT MIX PAPER PRODUCTS WITH CONTAINERS. Your boxes should contain one or the other.

NO Plastic Bags please.
Please DO NOT use PLASTIC bags in your Recyle Boxes.

Essex-Windsor Hotline: 1-800-563-3377For more information please contact our
Waste Reduction Hotline at
1-800-563-3377 (Essex County Residents)

Recycle...Don't Let Any Get Away!
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Last Revised: August 26, 2008
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