Drop-off Recycling Stations

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Items to be Recycled	Accepted	Not Accepted – Dispose
Newspapers	Clean Newspapers, all ads & inserts.	Plastic bags or string, wet, moldy or dirty newspapers.
Other Paper	Magazines, junk mail, catalogs, phone books, office paper, flattened chipboard (cereal, shoe & pasta boxes), paper grocery bags, flattened corrugated cardboard, beer/soda boxes, paper milk and juice cartons, post it notes, tissue boxes, books, gift wrap, construction paper, yellow cardboard.	Shredded paper, tissues, napkins, waxed paper or waxed cardboard, fast-food wrap, pizza boxes, plastic lined paper dog or cat food bags, or wood.
Plastic Containers	Marked #1-#7 (excluding #6), empty soft drink, milk, laundry, bleach jugs, shampoo & household cleaner bottles, yogurt containers, margarine tubs, etc. Flatten bottles & jugs and replace caps to save space.	Containers with no #s on bottom.Styrofoam (cups, peanuts, rigid packing materials, etc.), toys, plastic bags, plastic silverware, hangers, buckets, laundry baskets, items that contained hazardous materials.
Aluminum & Steel	Flattened empty aluminum & steel food & beverage cans & lids, aluminum foil & pie plates, baking pans & tins, paint cans that have no paint residue.	Scrap metal, cleaning fluid & poison containers, wires, hangers, toys, silverware, containers from petroleum based household solvents & pesticides, paint cans with liquid or dry paint residue, aerosol cans. No Electronics!
Glass	Glass food & beverage containers. All colors of bottles & jars, emptied, rinsed.	All other glass including window glass, light bulbs, mirrors, Pyrex, ceramic, porcelain drinking glasses, dishes, tableware, broken glass.
No dumping of refuse, landscape waste, hazardous waste, tires, appliances, toys, clothing, or other waste!
Residential recycling only Not for residents who have curbside recycling Business use prohibited
For more information call Ogle County Solid Waste Management 815-732-4020

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IS RECYCLING ENOUGH?

We must now take the next step!

Recycling material instead of throwing it out is only half of the job. We must now look to buying recycled products. By helping create a market for recycled products, we ensure that recycling works! A package label will usually identify whether the product or packaging material is made of recycled materials.

Read the labels!