What Stays Out of Your Green Cart
Kitchen scraps
- Coffee pods (no plastic of any kind)
- Chewing gum
Paper, household and food service items
- Absorbed pads from meat trays
- Baby wipes
- Butcher paper
- Chemicals or materials soaked in chemicals
- Cigarettes, cigar butts and/or ashes
- Corks
- Clothing (worn out)
- Botton balls, pads and/or swabs
- Cutlery (plastic and/or metal)
- Dental floss
- Disposable coffee cups (no Styrofoam or paper)
- Dryer sheets
- Feminine hygiene products
- Fireplace ashes
- Floor sweepings
- Foam food trays, cups or containers
- Foam meat trays and liners
- Furnace filters
- Hazardous substances
- Home health care waste
- Ice cream containers (plastic or paper)
- Incontinence products
- Juice boxes or pouches
- Matches
- Medicines
- Microwave popcorn bags
- Muffin paper cups/parchment paper
- Paper
- Parchment paper
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plastic bags
- Plastic coffee stir sticks
- Plastic containers of any kind/type
- Plastic drinking straws
- Plastic food wrap, liners and/or bags
- Plastic mild and/or coffee creamer containers
- Q-tips
- Soap
- Sod
- Sponges
- Stickers
- String
- Styrofoam (cups, food, meat trays, packing materials or containers)
- Swiffer sheets
- Textiles/fabrics
- Vacuum cleaner bags and/or contents
- Water softener salt and/or bags
- Wax paper
- Wreaths
- Yarn
- Yogurt foil seals
Yard waste
- Barbeque or fire pit ashes
- Branches greater than 1 inch in diameter
- Branches greater than three feet in length
- Branches or tree limbs infected with Black Knot, Fire Blight or Western Gall Rust (please take to the Waste Transfer Station).
- Diseased or pest-ridden trees or plants (please take to Waste Transfer Station).
- Elm tree branches
- Bricks
- Cinder blocks
- Concrete
- Fertilizer
- Herbicides
- Paver stones and patio blocks
- Rocks and/or gravel
- Sod
- Treated Wood
- Tree stumps
Pet waste
- Animal carcasses (large game animals, pets, etc.)
Cart and kitchen liners
- Plastic bags (including garbage bags and grocery store plastic bags)
Other items
- Motor oil and/or oil filters