Recycling pickup is a service that we provide for all residents of Clay Township and Phillipsburg. If you choose to participate, please follow these guidelines and special handling requirements.
 

DO NOT PLACE THESE ITEMS IN YOUR BIN

Plastic milk containers, soft drink, shampoo, laundry and detergent bottles displaying the recycling logo with the numbers 1 or 2. *Foam and rigid polystyrene food packaging containers are also accepted, providing they display the number 6. Please remove all caps or lids and rinse out. Plastic containers may be crushed to conserve space in our bin.

Wide mouth containers such as margarine bowls or whipped topping containers, plastic flatware, cassette and compact disc cases, children’s toys, oil jugs, plastic bags, plastic buckets, and garden hoses. Non-food packaging, including styrofoam packing peanuts.

Clear, brown, green and blue glass food and beverage containers and jars are accepted. Please remove caps and rinse out. Paper labels do not need to be removed.

Window glass, mirrors, light bulbs, drinking glasses, mugs and oven/cooking glassware. (Pyrex).

Aluminum cans, steel soup and food cans, an empty aerosol cans are accepted. Please rinse and drain. *Steel lids may be placed in cans; labels do not need to be removed. *Metal lids from glass jars are accepted.

Pots, pans, scrap metal or steel, and coat hangers.

Newspapers with glossy ad inserts, magazine catalogs, *telephone books, paperboard boxes (cereal, snack boxes), junk mail (direct mail, window envelopes flyers) and soft drink and beer cartons should be placed together in a brown paper grocery sack. Place sack (s) inside or beside your bin. *Corrugated cardboard is accepted, only broken down into 2-ft. by 2-ft. bundles. Place on or beside bin.

Paperboard cartons containing such items as milk, juice, non-dairy creamers, fabric softener and egg substitutes. Also accepted is packaging recognized by its box shape into which a straw can be inserted (sometimes referred to as “aseptics”, drink or juice boxes.

Frozen food cartons, frozen juice concentrate containers, straws, wax-coated products such as yogurt cups or waxed paper.

*NEWLY approved for recycling*