recycling guidelines

Getting Started

1. Place your recyclables inside the red recycling bin provided by Apple Valley Waste and have your bin at the curb in front of your house by 5:00 am on your collection day
2. Follow the instructions below for acceptable and unacceptable items.  If your bin is contaminated with unacceptable items the bin will not be serviced by Apple Valley Waste
3. If you have questions or concerns please call Apple Valley Waste at 304-724-1834
   

Paper, Newspapers, and Cardboard

Instructions:

1. Place paper or cardboard items in the bottom of your bin or along side the bin in a paper bag
2. All paper and cardboard items must be free from food debris and grease in order to be accepted
3. All cardboard items must be flattened and bound with string
4. Bundles should be no larger than 2ft X 2ft

Accepted Materials:

1. Anything that comes in the newspaper can be recycled with the newspaper
2. Mixed paper
3. Paperboard items
4. Telephone books, magazines, catalogs
5. Cardboard
6. Stationary, letterhead, copy paper, notepaper and computer paper

Unacceptable Items:

1. Paper with waxed surfaces or plastic liners, and gift wrap
2. Plastic bags
3. Gift wrap
4. Non-paper items
   

Other Items

1. All other items (Glass, Metal, and Plastic) should be placed loosely in your bin
2. Before recycling, make sure that all items are free from food debris. Food contaminated products will not be accepted
3. Remove all lids
   • Metal lids can be recycled
   • Plastic lids should be discarded

Glass

Accepted Materials:

1. Clear, green and brown bottles and jars

Unacceptable Items:

1. Window glass, ceramics, ovenware, crystal, mirrors and Pyrex

Metals

Accepted Materials:

1. All beverage containers made of aluminum, steel and bi-metal
2. All paint cans that once contained latex or oil-based paints as long as they have been thoroughly cleaned.
3. Completely empty aerosol cans

Unacceptable Items:

1. Chemical paint thinner solvent cans, non-aerosol pesticide cans
2. Empty gasoline or chemical cans

Plastics

Accepted Materials:

1. Plastic containers with numbers: 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7
2. 6-pack and 12-pack plastic rings

Unacceptable Items:

1. Uncoded plastics, oil containers, plastic buckets, grocery bags, food-contaminated plastics and oversized plastics

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