Commingled Containers: Recycling Glass, Plastic and Metal
Before recycling Commingled Containers, they should be rinsed. Neither lids nor labels need to be removed.
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All aluminum beverage containers (ABCs)
Aluminum foil and disposable aluminum foil pans (frozen food trays, pie shell pans, etc.)
Steel cans (soup, beans, pet food, etc.) including tops and bottoms
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Steel lids from glass jars and bottles
All colors of glass bottles and jars
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Plastic Containers #1 through #7 - even butter tubs and lids, and kitty litter buckets with lids! Containers, only - no bags or styrofoam.
Aluminum Beverage Conatiners - ABCs - baled and ready for shipment.
Download additional information about #3-#7 plastics.
Not Acceptable
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Plastic bags
Styrofoam
Glass besides food or beverage containers
Glassware, crystal, ceramics, plate glass, mirrors
How Materials Are Re-Used
Recycled PETE #1 is used in carpet, packaging, or container industries in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Recycled HDPE #2 is used to make new #2 containers (either milk jugs or detergent jugs) in North Carolina.
Recycled steel cans are used in various steel products in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
Recycled aluminium cans are used to make new aluminum beverage containers Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
Recycled glass is used in the glass container packaging industry in North Carolina.