An expanded list of recyclables is provided in your service area’s Recycling link. Briefly, plastics exhibiting the numbers 1-7 in recyclable arrows; most glass food and beverage containers, milk or juice cartons, uncoated, uncontaminated paper, including business papers, shoe boxes, cereal and cracker boxes, newspapers, metals, such as tin and aluminum cans, empty paint cans with dry paint, food and juice cans and some lawn furniture.
With regard to washing recyclables, it is only necessary to rinse out the bulk of the contents of recyclable containers.