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Planet Alameda Home
Cool Online Activities
Recycle Bottles & Cans
Don't Trash that Cell Phone
Disposing of Universal Wastes
Household Hazardous Waste
Batteries, Fluorescent Tubes
Dealing with Food Scraps
Recycle Used Motor Oil
Sea of Cortez Expedition
Zebra Mussel Alert


Recycling Program

Questions about recycling
or organics?
Visit


Aquatic Outreach Institute
Workshops for Educators

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Your local guide to living and working the environmentally sensitive way.
Items for the Green Cart
Residential Recycling Guide
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green cart

No Recyclable Materials or Solid Waste

Before discarding, please consider reusing or donating.

Please make sure all materials fit inside the cart with the lid closed.


bones
bread
cactus
cereal
cheese
chopsticks (wooden)
coffee cups (paper)
coffee grounds
coffee filters (paper)
dairy products
egg shells
facial tissue
flowers
frozen food boxes
fruit
grains
grass cuttings
houseplants
ice cream cartons
ice cream sticks (wooden)
leaves
meat
milk cartons (paper)
newspaper (food-soiled)
paper take-out cartons without
metal handles
paper towels & napkins (foodsoiled)
pasta
pizza boxes (and leftover pizza)
prunings
Q-tips (with paper or wooden wands)
sawdust
shrubs

tea bags/tea bags with staples
tree twigs and branches up to 6” in diameter
trees (holiday, unflocked)
vegetables
waxed cardboard
waxed paper (food-soiled)
waxed paper containers/cups
weeds
wine corks (natural only)
wood (uncoated, untreated)
wood chips
yard waste

Helpful Tip…
Do not bag, tie, or bundle yard trimmings before placing them in the cart.

Kitchen Pail…
For your convenience, ACI has provided you a green kitchen pail for the collection of food scraps and food-soiled paper. Simply deposit the contents of the green kitchen pail into the green organics cart.


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