WASTECO RECYCLES
PAPER
ACCEPTABLE
- computer paper
- white ledger
- bond paper
- coloured paper
- fax paper
- file folders
- post-it-notes
- envelopes
- windowed envelopes
- NCR paper (no carbon required)
- magazines
- newspapers
- coffee cups
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UNACCEPTABLE
- carbon paper
- cardboard
- glass or metal
- lunch or food waste
- plastic or styrofoam
- tissue or paper towels
- overnight courier envelopes
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CARDBOARD
ACCEPTABLE
- plain corrugated
- printed, coloured, lightly taped
- staples, strings on corrugated
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UNACCEPTABLE
- waxed cardboard
- greasy, oil or food stained cardboard
- cardboard cores
- cardboard containers lined with foil, plastic,
styrofoam
- excessively taped boxes (ie. entire surface
taped)
- cardboard contaminated by construction materials
such as paint, tar, drywall compound, cement
- other paper fibres, ie. boxboard, kraft paper
- beer cases and other wet strength containers
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GLASS, CANS AND PLASTICS
ACCEPTABLE
- caps, labels, straws
- plastic #1, & #2
- coffee cup lids
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UNACCEPTABLE
- ceramics
- glass plates
- bulbs
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