What can I recycle in Marion County?

Marion County recycling changes

• Newspaper, including advertisements and paper inserts.
• Corrugated cardboard.
• Magazines and catalogs.
• Junk/direct mail.
• Boxes (cereal, cracker, cookie and shoe boxes)
• Office paper (Copier and printer paper, file folders, note paper, computer paper, brochures)

What can be recycled in Salem Oregon?

Accepted Items: Cardboard, Glass, Grayboard, Magazines, Mixed Scrap Paper, Newspaper, Office Paper, Plastic Bottles & Jugs, Tin & Aluminum cans. Marion Recycling Center, Inc. Address: 3680 Brooklake Road NE, Salem, Oregon Phone: 503-390-4000 Hours: Open for Recycling Monday thru Friday 7am to 3pm.

What goes in the red recycling box?

Plastic and metal cans recycling in your Red Box

• Plastic bottles (e.g. drinks bottles, plastic milk bottles, bleach bottles, washing and fabric conditioner bottles etc.)
• Plastic tubs, pots and trays (e.g. margarine tubs, yoghurt pots etc.)
• Drink cans.
• Food tins (place tin lids inside the tin)

How do I find local recycling?

Get to know your local recycling program you use and encourage them to use How2Recycle.info as a resource.

1. Check printed materials from your local government or recycling provider.
2. Browse the website of your local government or recycling provider.
3. Call your local government or recycling provider.

Can you recycle egg cartons?

Most paper egg cartons can be placed in your recycling bin just like any other paper product. As long as they have the universal recycling symbol on the packaging, they can be broken down, mashed into a pulp, and turned into another form of paper product.

How do you dispose of a fire extinguisher in Oregon?

If you are unable to recharge your fire extinguisher or have an old one you wish to dispose of, please take it to a Metro Hazardous Waste Facility.

What goes in the blue recycle bin?

Metal lids from jars and bottles. Cardboard ( for example cereal boxes, egg boxes, toilet roll & kitchen roll tubes, delivery boxes) Food tins, pet food tins and drinks cans (rinsed) Paper, ( including magazines, unwanted mail, greetings card, shredded paper, catalogues)

What can you put in your green recycling box?

What can I put in my green recycling box?

• thick and thin card.
• cardboard packaging.
• cereal boxes.
• egg boxes.
• ready meal sleeves.
• brown paper wrapping or brown envelopes.
• toilet roll tubes.
• greetings cards (without foil or glitter)

What bins to use for recycling?

Putting the right rubbish in the right bin helps us to recycle properly….What goes in your bins

• your blue bin is for recyclable waste.
• your brown bin is for garden waste.
• your green or grey bin is for non-recyclable and food waste.

What materials are recyclable in my area?

Cardboard

• Cereal boxes.
• Tissue boxes.
• Dry food boxes.
• Frozen food boxes.
• Shoe boxes.
• Detergent boxes.
• Paper towel and toilet paper rolls.
• Cardboard boxes (broken down and flattened)

Are Milk Cartons recyclable?

Cartons are made mainly from paper, with a thin layer of polyethylene (plastic), so cartons can be recycled. Milk, soup, and milk alternatives, like soy and almond milk, are just some of the products packaged in cartons that are recyclable in your blue box or container cart!

Why are egg cartons not recyclable?

Paper egg cartons are recyclable! To recycle your egg cartons, make sure they are clean and dry. If you place eggs back in the carton after cracking them, the carton is no longer recyclable due to the food residue. Food residue will contaminate the recycling process.