Des Moines

Paper:

• Cardboard

• Office paper including windowed envelopes, color paper, file folders and post-it notes

• Mail, magazines, mixed paper

• Newspaper

• Paper bags

• Paper cups

• Phone books & paperback books

• Shredded paper

• Wrapping paper (non-metalic)

• Paper cartons

• Juice boxes, Tetra Paks & aseptic containers 

• Milk and soy milk cartons

• Paper or frozen food boxes

Plastic:

• Bottles (all colors and numbers)

• Food containers and trays

• Clear or colored plastic milk jugs

• Dairy tubs

• Pill bottles (no prescription vials)

• Plastic cups

• Lids (3 inches or wider)

• Plastic plant pots

• Plastic buckets

• Plastic bags (shopping, newspaper and dry-cleaning bags when bagged together)

• PVC pipe (white only)

• Household rigid plastic items such as furniture, and laundry baskets

Metal:

• Aluminum cans

• Aluminum foil & pie tins (clean)

• Tin cans

• Ferrous scrap metal 

• Other scrap metals (less than 2’ x 2’ x 2’)

Glass:

• Bottles

• Jars

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