Businesses: Recycling (Blue) Bin
Put metals, plastics, paper and glass in the blue bin. If your blue collection bins are overflowing, you can contact Republic Services at (925) 685-4711 to request more collection services throughout the week at no additional charge.
For Your Information
- PLEASE KEEP YOUR RECYCLABLES EMPTY, CLEAN AND DRY!
- You can leave staples and paper clips in your papers.
- Use a spatula, spoon or paper towel to remove food residue. You can then place the paper towel in your green bin.
- Republic Services can’t accept polystyrene foam.
Put in Your Blue Bin
Glass
- All colors, lids, caps
- Bottles
- CRV beverage containers
- Jars
Metal
- Aluminum cans
- Aluminum foil (clean)
- Aluminum pie plates
- Cookie sheets
- CRV beverage cans
- Food cans (clean)
- Clean pots and pans
- Tin cans
Paper
- Boxes, packages
- Books (paperback)
- Cardboard (must fit in cart)
- Catalogs
- Colored and construction paper
- Computer paper
- Copy paper
- Detergent boxes
- Egg cartons (paper only; no polystyrene foam; if the eggs have broken put soiled cartons in Green Cart)
- Envelopes with metal clasps (okay to leave the metal in)
- Envelopes with plastic windows
- Glossy paper
- Magazines
- Newspapers and inserts
- Paper bags
- Paper packaging with remnant tape
- Paperboard boxes
- Paper shreds (in a brown paper bag or clear plastic bag)
- Paper towel and toilet paper tubes
- Post-its
- Telephone books
Plastic
- Baby wipes containers
- Bleach bottles
- Buckets without handles
- CRV beverage containers (soda, water, juice)
- Detergent bottles
- Food containers (no polystyrene foam)
- Household cleaning containers (empty)
- Lids and caps
- Milk jugs
- Plastic bags (put all dry and clean plastic bags in one) Bag-the-bags!
- Plastic containers with recycling arrow #’s 1-7
- Salad dressing bottles
- Tub containers with recycling arrow #’s 1-7
- Water jugs
- Rigid plastics (such as buckets, laundry baskets, toys)
Do Not Put in Your Blue Bin
- Dirty recyclables
- Ceramic dishes
- Drinking glasses
- Facial tissues
- Paper towels, napkins, paper plates, paper cups (food contaminates paper recycling)
- Plastic utensils
- Metal paint cans
- Mirror or window glass
- Polystyrene foam