Reminders: Holiday Recycling Reminder
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HOLIDAY RECYCLING REMINDER
Happy Holidays! Thank you for your recycling efforts over the past year. Following are some guidelines for recycling during the holiday months and all year long:
Please DO include the following items in your paper recycling mix:
- Wrapping paper, gift bags, tissue paper (except those with metallic inks, glitter, or foil)
- Corrugated cardboard boxes, paperboard gift boxes
- Paper shopping bags (any type of handle is okay)
- Paper greeting cards (not with metallic inks, glitter, or foil; remove batteries)
- Catalogs, calendars and magazines
Please DO NOT include the following items in your household recycling:
- Ribbons, bows, and tinsel (reusable from year to year)
- Holiday light strings
- Packing peanuts, Styrofoam™, bubble wrap, inflatable “air pillow” packaging
- Plastic bags, plastic shipping envelopes, bubble wrap, air pillows (these materials plus clean, dry plastic bags marked #2 or #4 accepted in retail plastic bag bins. plasticfilmrecycling.org)
- Formed plastic packaging from items like toys and electronics
- Gossy photographs, paper envelopes with bubble wrap inside, ornaments, decorations
Questions?
Franklin County Solid Waste Management District: info@franklincountywastedistrict.org, (413) 772-2438
More info: franklincountywastedistrict.org, springfieldmrf.org.
MA Relay for the hearing impaired: 711 or 1-800-439-2370 (TTY/TDD).
TIP: Keep a recycle bin or paper bag handy near gift unwrapping