In Ontario County New York, you can recycle plastic bottles, jugs, tubs, lids, produce containers, and clear cups. Aluminum, tin, and foil food and beverage containers can be placed in your household recycling bin. Corrugated cardboard, boxboard, junk mail, magazines, paper bags, and clean paper are accepted as well. You can recycle glass food and beverage containers. All items should be clean, dry, and empty. 

The presence of a recycling symbol and the number in the symbol does not necessarily indicate that an item is recyclable. Learn more about what is and is not accepted with household recycling and watch a video about how recycling is sorted by clicking here.

Everything you put in your bin is sorted. For details on how this process works, check out this short video. Make sure you only put materials in your bin that are listed as acceptable to ensure that everything you’ve sorted gets recycled. Any material you put in the bin that’s not on the list has to be sorted out and disposed of separately.

Wish-cycling is the practice of including an item in the recycle bin even though you are unsure if it is accepted because you really want it to be recycled. Click here for information on what can be recycled.

They should be reasonably clean. Be considerate of the workers who handle your recyclables at the Recycling Center.

Yes.

Yes! Just make sure to remove any remaining pizza, crusts, or other loose material.

No, plastic bags get caught in the sorting equipment and damage it. In many cases, you can save them and bring them back to the store they came from. Find out more here: https://ontariocountyrecycles.org/159/Plastic-Bags-Film

No! Find out how to recycle here: https://ontariocountyrecycles.org/Admin/FAQ.aspx

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