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Plastic, glass, cartons and metal : 515 Edgecombe Cooperative

METAL (all kinds)

  • met­al cans (soup, pet food, emp­ty aerosol cans, dried-out paint cans, etc.)

  • alu­minum foil wrap & trays

  • met­al caps & lids

  • house­hold met­al (wire hang­ers, pots, tools, cur­tain rods, knives, small appli­ances that are most­ly met­al, cer­tain vehi­cle license plates, etc.)

GLASS (bot­tles & jars)

PLASTIC (rigid plas­tics)

  • plas­tic bot­tles, jugs & jars
  • rigid plas­tic caps & lids
  • rigid plas­tic food con­tain­ers (yogurt, deli, hum­mus, dairy tubs, cook­ie tray inserts, “clamshell” con­tain­ers, oth­er plas­tic take-out con­tain­ers)
  • rigid plas­tic non-food con­tain­ers
  • rigid plas­tic pack­ag­ing (“blis­ter-pak” and “clamshell” con­sumer pack­ag­ing, acetate box­es)
  • rigid plas­tic house­wares (flower pots, mix­ing bowls, plas­tic appli­ances, etc.)
  • bulk rigid plas­tic (crates, buck­ets, pails, fur­ni­ture, large toys, large appli­ances, etc.)

CARTONS

Emp­ty and rinse con­tain­ers before recy­cling. Place all togeth­er in CLEAR bags, or in any bin labeled with BLUE recy­cling decals or marked “METAL, GLASS & PLASTIC”.

Recy­cle caps & lids.

Note:

Wrap knives or sim­i­lar sharp met­al objects in card­board (such as a piece of cere­al box) and secure with tape. Label the pack­age “CAUTION: SHARP” and place with oth­er des­ig­nat­ed met­al, glass, plas­tic recy­clables. For Home Sharps/Hypodermics, see House­hold Med­ical Wastes.

Place bulk met­al or plas­tic next to recy­cling bins or bags.

Call 311 before dis­card­ing appli­ances that con­tain CFC gas.

5¢ deposit: Take deposit bot­tles and cans back to the store for refunds.

Don’t include the following with your metal, glass, plastic & carton recycling:

  • plas­tic foam items (foam cups, foam egg car­tons, foam trays, foam pack­ing peanuts, foam sport­ing equip­ment, etc.)

  • plas­tic bags, wrap­pers, show­er cur­tains, and all kinds of plas­tic “film”

  • con­tain­ers that held dan­ger­ous or cor­ro­sive chem­i­cals

  • lighters (plas­tic, met­al, or any mate­r­i­al)

  • plas­tic tubes (tooth­paste, lotion, and cos­met­ics, etc.)

  • sin­gle-serve food and drink squeez­able pouch­es (juice pouch­es, baby food squeeze pouch­es, yogurt to go pouch­es, etc.)

  • cas­sette and VHS tapes

  • pens & mark­ers (plas­tic, met­al, or any mate­r­i­al)

  • dis­pos­able razors

  • 3‑ring binders (if sep­a­rate the met­al rings, can recy­cle the met­al)

  • umbrel­las

  • gar­den hoses

  • lug­gage (plas­tic or tex­tile)

  • sponges

  • sports balls (bas­ket balls, bowl­ing balls, soc­cer balls, foot­balls, yoga balls, etc.)

  • any glass items oth­er than glass bot­tle & jars (mir­rors, light bulbs, ceram­ics, glass­ware, etc.)

  • bat­ter­ies (take bat­ter­ies out of toys before recy­cling)
  • elec­tron­ics (com­put­ers, TVs, and relat­ed devices)

  • exten­sion cords and Christ­mas tree lights

  • dia­pers

These items list­ed above are not recy­clable and can cre­ate prob­lems in pro­cess­ing the mate­r­i­al that is recy­clable.

You can take plas­tic bags and recharge­able bat­ter­ies to many retail stores in NYC to be recy­cled. For more info on this and oth­er take-back pro­grams, see: Take it Back NYC.

If an item is in good cond­tion, see reuse it nyc for reuse options.