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Single-Stream Recycling: Brown Carts
Rockville operates a curbside single-stream recycling program. Place all recycling in the brown cart. Recycling items can be mixed together. Keep the lid closed to avoid spilling recyclables. Place oversized plastic items that will not fit in the cart next to the cart and label as recycle.
Accepted Recycling Items: Mixed Paper, Cardboard, Aluminum Products, Metal Food and Beverage Containers, Glass Food and Beverage Containers (Bottles and Jars), Plastic Bottles, Jugs, Rigid Plastics
| EXAMPLES | NOT ACCEPTED | ||
| Mixed Paper: | |||
 | Books – paperback and hard cover |  | No paper towels, facial tissues, napkins |
| Colored paper | | No cigarette packs |
| Greeting cards, postcards, card stock | | No candy wrappers |
| Mail, envelopes (windows okay) | | No waxed or plastic coated paper |
| Magazines, catalogs | | No needles, razor blades, syringes (See Refuse section for disposal) |
| Newspapers, advertisements, inserts | ||
| Paper bags | | No newspapers in plastic bags |
| Phone books | ||
| Shredded paper (place shredded paper in a paper bag within the brown cart) | ||
| Wrapping paper (no foil) | ||
| Writing/ledger/fax paper | ||
| Cardboard: (flattened boxes to maximize cart space) | |||
| Boxes with windows | ||
| Cereal and cake boxes (throw away plastic or wax liners in the gray refuse cart) | ||
| Gift boxes | ||
| Milk cartons, juice boxes | ||
| Pizza and frozen food boxes | ||
| Shoe boxes | ||
| Toilet paper and paper towel rolls | ||
| Toothpaste and tissue boxes | ||
| Wax-coated boxes/containers (frozen food, Chinese) | ||
| Tin and Aluminum: (must be rinsed, no need to remove labels) | |||
| Aerosol cans (empty, if not see Household Hazardous Waste section for disposal) | | No scrap metal |
| Metal lids | | No paint cans |
| Pet food cans | | No aluminum siding |
| Soup and vegetable cans | | No pots and pans |
| Tins from cookies and popcorn | | No metal furniture |
| No propane tanks | ||
| No automotive parts (See Special Collections section for disposal) | ||
| Foil: | |||
| Foil wrap and aluminum foil | ||
| Pie plates | ||
| Food and Beverage Bottles and Jars: (rinsed, no need to remove labels, remove metal lids and place separately in brown cart) | |||
| Clear and colored glass | | No glass dishes, glass windows, plates, Pyrex, ceramics, mirrors, light bulbs or crystal (See Refuse section for disposal) |
| Plastics: (lids acceptable, must be rinsed, no need to remove labels) | |||
| Caps | | No automotive fluid bottles – oil, antifreeze, brake fluid* |
| Cleaner containers (window, toilet, etc.) | | No pesticide containers* |
| Detergent and bleach containers | | No Styrofoam No PVC pipe, rubber tubing |
| Flower pots | | No vinyl siding |
| Furniture | | No flexible water hosing |
| Milk/water jugs | | No food containers (clear, clear top/brown bottom, clear top/styrofoam bottom, or clamshell food containers usually for take-out food and fruits/vegetables) |
| Plastic bags, film, shrink wrap, bubble wrap (placed within 1 bag and tied) | ||
| Plastic cups | ||
| Plastic spoons, forks, knives | ||
| Salad dressing bottles | ||
| Shampoo bottles | ||
| Soda/juice bottles | ||
| Straws | ||
| Sunscreen/medicine bottles | ||
| Syrup bottles | ||
| Toys | *Containers that are empty can be placed in the gray refuse cart. | |
| Yogurt and margarine containers | ||
| 05/17/2011 | |||