Recycling is Important to our Lake Community

Engaging your support in recycling eligible waste products continues to be an important goal for our lake community. Recycling rules may vary by municipalities and communities so Waste Management has provided us with their up-to-date recycling guidelines for your review.   Also, please download and review the "Mythbusters" pdf below for additional insights about current recycling efforts and some of the Myths about the process.
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Waste Management DISPOSAL RECYCLING GUIDELINES:

PLEASE PUT ACCEPTABLE ITEMS ONLY IN YOUR RECYCLING CONTAINER.
1. There is no need to sort any of your recyclable items.  You must provide your own recycling container.  Any container is acceptable.
2. Please rinse out all recyclables.  Do not put any container full of food in your recycling.
3. PLEASE DO NOT PUT ANY HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH IN WITH RECYCLING!!

The following items ARE ACCEPTABLE for recycling:
Carboard & Paper Bags (no wax coated cardboard), Magazines, Phone Books, Catalogs, Junk Mail, Office Paper, Newspapers w/glossy inserts, Steel,Tin & Aluminum Cans, Glass, Plastics #1 - #7.
Please leave these items loose in your bin - do not bag the items.
 
ITEMS NOT ACCEPTABLE:
Plastic Bags - please return them to your retailer
Styrofoam – containers, packing peanuts, egg cartons, regular styrofoam 
Foil/hangers/ books (hard or soft cover)
Stones/rocks/wood/dirt/yard-waste/flower packs/planters
Tissue/paper-towels/napkins/toilet paper/paper-plates/wax-paper
Batteries/cigarette butts/cigar butts/electrical appl.
Ceramic cups/plates/figurines/ different colored glass/solo cups
toys/syringes/motor oil containers/clothes/shoes  

PLEASE DO NOT PUT SYRINGES IN WITH RECYCLING!!!!!!!!!!

ANYTHING NOT LISTED UNDER ACCEPTABLE ITEMS, IS NOT RECYCLING!