Recycling

Accepted Commodities

• CRV aluminum cans
• Scrap Aluminum cans
• Steel Cans
• CRV #1 PET plastic
• CRV Glass
• CRV Bimetal Cans
• CRV # 2 HDPE Plastic
• CRV #3-#7 Plastics
• Scrap Glass bottles
• #1 & # 2 Scrap Plastic
• Cardboard
• Office Paper & Shredded office paper

Materials List

All materials listed should be separated from each other.  Materials should be kept clean and dry.

CRV ALUMINUM CANS:  $1.66

Crushing is not necessary. Please keep cans clean and dry. Foil and pie plates are not accepted. Loads with contaminants such as dirt, moisture, or garbage will receive a reduction in the price paid. Heavily contaminated cans will be rejected.

SCRAP ALUMINUM CANS:  10 cents per lb.

Aluminum cans without the CRV label. Examples: aluminum cat food cans, aluminum Slimfast, aluminum juice concentrate cans. The same rules apply as above.

CRV PET PLASTIC:  $1.46  per lb.

Examples:  plastic soda, juice, water, sport drink, distilled spirit, and tonic water bottles.  Please rinse out and take off caps.  Small loads may be counted.  Bottles over 24 oz-10 cents, under 24 oz-5 cents.   

CRV GLASS:  10.1 cents per lb.

Examples:  beer, wine cooler, juices, wine, distilled spirits,  ice tea and mineral water bottles.  Take off caps and separate by color.  Clear from colored glass.  Glass with a hint of green or blue should be kept with colored glass.  Broken glass will not be accepted.

CRV BIMETAL CANS:  43 cents per lb.

Examples:  steel Sapporo beer cans.

CRV #2 HDPE PLASTIC:  67 cents per lb. 

Gallon water jugs, Minute Maid juice cocktails, Sunny Delite.  

CRV #3-#7 PLASTICS

Beverages with a CRV label in other types of plastic containers.  We try our best to count these containers.  Bottles over 24 oz-10 cents, under 24 oz-5 cents. WDS

WINE & LIQUOR CONTAINERS: 25 cents per container

Pouches, Boxes, Cartons

NEW: Wine & Liquor containers: Pouches, Boxes, Cartons 25 cents per container

Milk, Slimfast, Ensure, Carpri Sun and several other containers are NOT CRV!  Questions about the new CRV laws can be answered at 842-9119.  If you are being charged in error, call 1-800-RECYCLE or the Sacramento field office of the Division of Recycling at 1-916-327-2792.  We cannot pay redemption on items being charged in error.

DROP OFF LIST

SCRAP GLASS:

Examples: food containers.  Take off lids and separate by color.  Labels may be left on, but please rinse out.  We cannot accept broken glass, Pyrex, window glass or ceramics.

PLASTIC:

Rinse out containers and take off caps.  We accept #1 and #2 plastic.  Turn the jug upside down and look for a 1 or 2 inside the recycling symbol.  We cannot accept motor oil or antifreeze bottles.  We can only recycle bottles and jugs.  We cannot recycle bags or tubs marked with #2.  Please separate #1 and #2 plastic.

CARDBOARD:

We can only take clean, dry corrugated cardboard.  Please, no waxed cardboard, cereal boxes, detergent boxed or shoeboxes.  Brown paper bags can be recycled with cardboard.

OFFICE PAPER:

White computer paper, copy paper, letterhead, typing paper, colored copy paper, post-it notes, fax paper, legal pad paper, envelopes with or without windows, shredded office paper.  Please do not put newsprint or magazines in this paper.

STEEL CANS:

Examples: vegetables and fruit in metal cans aka “tin cans”. Rinse out cans. Contaminated cans will not be accepted.