Paper Recycling

We offer recycling services for several types of paper! Follow the links below to learn about some important guidelines to follow when preparing your paper for recycling.
 
For any paper recycling, please remove: wax-coated paper, foil or foil-coated paper, plastic or plastic-coated paper, carbon paper, photos, blueprints, paper plates, napkins, towels, or Kleenex. Please no garbage, rubber bands or plastic. Also, no metal except small paper clips and staples.

Cardboard (Corrugated)

We recycle flattened, dry corrugated cardboard. Must have rippled layer. We cannot take waxed boxes. For shirt and cereal type boxes, see the Mixed Waste Paper Guide.
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Colored Ledger Paper

Colored Ledger Paper includes both colored and white:

  • Copy paper

  • Printer paper

  • Bond paper

  • Letterhead

  • Carbonless copy paper

  • White notebook paper

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Computer Paper

  • Computer paper has Blue or Green bars.

  • Most white computer paper is white ledger paper.

  • Some recycled content paper will go as a lower value paper. 

  • Carbon paper is not acceptable. Go Back


Document Destruction

Our off-site secure document destruction service is perfect for those sensitive documents that you'd like to have recycled. To find out more about this service, please visit the Document Destruction information page.
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Magazines

We accept clean, dry magazines.  No junk mail, no catalogs - even if they look like magazines, see Mixed Waste Guide.  Keep magazines separate from all other items.
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Mixed Waste Paper

Our Mixed Waste Paper service allows you to recycle most of the types of paper on this page without sorting them, in addition to some other household paper items. There is a charge for this service. To read all the details of the specific types of paper accepted as Mixed Waste, please refer to our Mixed Waste Guide. Go Back



Newspaper

Includes the newspaper and everything that comes in it, including comics and ads. However, do not add other slick paper. Keep separate from other paper. Bundled in paper bags is great. Newspapers bundled in plastic bags, twine, or other plastic will need to be removed at time of unloading.

If you'd like to donate your newspapers to the Lions Club, click here for info. 

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Phonebooks

Keep clean, dry, and separate from other recyclables.
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White Ledger

Includes most white:

  • Copy paper

  • Computer paper

  • White printer paper

  • White bond paper

  • White letterhead

  • New envelopes without plastic windows

  • Colored inks OK

No slick paper, no tablets, no metallic embossing, no junk mail or any other mail, if you have these items, refer to the Mixed Waste Guide.
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