Separating Your Trash

Each resident is provided a 95-gallon black container for trash, a 96-gallon green container for greenwaste, and a 60-gallon blue container for recyclables.

Please do not put hot ashes, hot cinders, smoldering coals, or burning materials in the container.

Listed below are the items that can and cannot be placed in each container.

 

95-gallon (or 65-gallon) black trash container

All trash must fit inside of the container.  It is acceptable to place trash in plastic trash bags before placing them in your trash container.  However, extra bags, boxes or cans of trash left at the curb will not be accepted.

The following items can be placed in your black trash container:

 

Food waste	Palm fronds and trimmings	Clothing
Animal waste	Cactus or succulents	Plastic bags
Kitty litter	Disposable diapers	Soiled paper products

 

The following items cannot be placed in your black trash container:

Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)	Dead animals	Electronic Waste (E-Waste)
Dirt, rock, or concrete	Greenwaste	Universal Waste (U-Waste)

 

60-gallon blue recycling container

All recycling must fit inside of the container.  Extra bags, boxes or cans of recycling left at the curb will not be accepted.

Food containers do not need to be rinsed out before placing them in your recycling container.  If there is a good amount of food left in the container the majority of it should be disposed of before placing it in your recycling container.

The following items can be placed in your blue recycling container:

 

Aluminum cans	Egg cartons	Newspapers
Antifreeze bottles	Envelopes	Pet food cans
Assorted food jars	Food/waxy boxes	Plastics #1 - #7
Baby food jars	Food and juice cans	Plastic laundry jugs
Beer bottles	Jam and jelly jars	Plastic soda bottles
Brochures	Juice bottles	Shampoo and lotion bottles
Cardboard	Juice boxes	Soda/beer cartons
Catalogs	Junk mail	Styrofoam
Cereal boxes	Metal coat hangers	Telephone books
Computer paper	Magazines	Tissue boxes
Condiment jars	Mixed paper	Wine and liquor bottles
Crayon drawings	Milk cartons	Wrapping paper

The following items cannot be placed in your blue recycling container.  These items are considered Trash, Household Hazardous Waste (HHW), Electronic Waste (E-Waste) or Universal Waste (U-Waste).

 

 

Trash	HHW	E-Waste	U-Waste
Bicycles	Auto parts	Cell phones	Common batteries
Ceramic dishes/cups	Paint	Computer monitors	Light bulbs
Clothing	Household cleaners	CPUs	Mercury thermometers
Drinking glasses	Anti-freeze	Fax machines
Furniture and carpet	Fertilizer	Microwave ovens
Garden hoses	Pesticide	PDAs
Metal lawn furniture	Weed killer	Printers
Mirrors	Turpentine	Scanners
Plastic grocery bags	Paint thinner	Stereos and TVs
Plastic lawn furniture	Pool chemicals	VCRs/DVD Players
Plastic margarine tubs
Plastic pools and toys
Safety glass
Soiled pizza boxes
Used aluminum foil
Used diapers
Used paper plates
Used tissue products
Wax paper
Windows

 

96-gallon greenwaste container

The following items can be placed in your greenwaste container:

 

Grass clippings	Tree trimmings	Shrub trimmings
Leaves	Brush	Weeds

 

The following items cannot be placed in your greenwaste container:

 

Dirt	Rock	Cactus
Concrete	Palm fronds	Animal waste
Food waste