Trash

Items you can send to the landfill:

6-pack rings (please cut)
Auto Glass
Binders (plastic)
Carbon paper
Children’s toys
Cosmetic Containers
Cotton Balls
Computer Disks
Contaminated Paper
Deodorant Casing
Diapers
Drinking glasses
Feminine Products
Foam (all types)
Food and snack waste
Hangers (dry cleaners
will take back hangers)
Hardbound books
Hoses
Ice cream wrappers
Laminated items
Leather
Light bulbs (no fluorescent)
Liquids (non-food)
Metal Cable wire
Metallic wrapping paper
Mirrors
Nylon
Packing peanuts (or take
to a shipping store)
Paper clips
Papers used for
cleaning (soiled)
Pencils with erasers
Pet feces
Photographs
Plastic plants
Plastic bags (or recycle
at grocery stores)
Plastics (unmarked
with #1-#5)
Polystyrene
q-tips
Rawhide
Records, tapes, cds
Report covers (plastic)
Rubber bands
Rubber/neoprene
Rugs/mats
Shoes (unwanted or
can’t be donated)
Shower curtains, liners
Sponges
Straws, Stir sticks (plastic)
Stuffed animals, toys
Styrofoam
Tape
Tempered Glass
(Corning, Pyrex)
Textiles
Toothpaste tubes
Transparencies, microfilm,
negatives (acetate)
Tyvek
Utensils (plastic)
Vacuum cleaner bags
Window Glass
Wood (treated)

Information taken from www.MontereyRecycles.com