Updated 22-Jan-08

City Carton Recycling

"Go Green!"  We Can Help!

1-800-369-6112

Recycling Programs

Recycling Equipment

Brokerage

Marketing

Services

Fiber Fuel

Confidential Shredding

Creston & Prairie Solid Waste Agency Area

Taylor, Adams & Union County)

A Homeowner Guide to

Recycling

Newspapers:Can be loose or tied with a string, put in paper bags or placed in a cardboard box, then placed in the drop-off container.

Magazines:Only slick or shiny magazines and catalogs accepted.

Drop Off Sites

City Carton Recycling

1451 Highway 34 W

Creston, IA 50801

 

Prairie Solid Waste

Agency

Taylor County-
Lenox, Clearfield, New Market, Bedford (Hy-Vee) and Blockton

 

Adams County-
Corning (7th & John St.) and Prescott

 

Union County-

Lorimor, Afton,

Creston (3 grocery stores), and Macksburg (in Madison County)

Cardboard:Corrugated cardboard only. Please flatten and stack.  Drop-off sites available at City Carton Recycling, 1451 Highway 34 W, Creston and Prairie Solid Waste Agency sites for residential community. The business community will need to call City Carton at (641)782-6681 or Prairie Solid Waste Agency at (641) 347-5022.

Office Paper:Must be tied with string, placed in box or put in paper bags. Then place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 1451 Highway 34 W, Creston, or Prairie Solid Waste Agency sites.

Acceptable

Food containers

Shampoo bottles

Juice jugs

Detergent bottles

Bleach Jugs

Butter containers

Milk jugs

Not Acceptable

Oil bottles

Toys, clam shells

Laundry baskets

Etc.

Glass Bottles & Jars:Clear only. Food and beverage containers only. These containers must be rinsed and the lids removed. (Metal lids can go with the tin cans).

Whether Your Business is Manufacturing,

Retail or Professional Services,

City Carton has Solutions to Your

Recycling Challenges!

Tin Cans:All tin and aluminum cans are acceptable. Rinse the can. Please remove the labels if possible. Crush the can or stack smaller ones inside larger cans.

Recycling Programs

Recycling Equipment

Brokerage

Marketing

Services

Fiber Fuel

Confidential Shredding

Recycling Facility Locations

Acceptable

Newspapers

Advertising Supplements

 

Note : Supplements that come in the newspapers can stay with the newspapers when recycled.

Not Acceptable

Magazines

Catalogs

Phone Books

Junk Mail

Envelopes

Books

Cereal Boxes

Anything with Glue

Acceptable

Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Etc

Not Acceptable

TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, Tabloids

Phone books

Acceptable

Boxes with staples, Brown paper sacks

Cereal boxes (remove liners)

Tissue boxes (remove liners)

Sacks with string

Not Acceptable

Wax-coated cardboard

Feed/seed sacks

Pop carriers

Anything with food scraps

 

Acceptable

Computer paper

Typing paper

Writing paper

Photocopy paper

Envelopes

Light pastel colored paper

File folders

Unwanted residential mail

Not Acceptable

Newspapers

Cardboard

Magazines, Books

Carbon paper

Other sensitized paper

Blueprint paper

Film, Photographs

Tape, Glue

Metal objects (staples are ok)

Acceptable

Clear only

Not Acceptable

Drinking glasses, Window glass

Light bulbs, Mirrors, Crystal

Heat resistant ovenware, Clay flower pots

Ceramic cups & plates

Phone (319) 351-2848

Toll Free (800) 369-6112
Fax (319) 351-3818

WebMaster@Citycarton.com

City Carton Recycling

Corporate Office

3 East Benton

Iowa City, Iowa  52240

Iowa City

3 East Benton

Iowa City, IA 52240

Phone (319) 351-2848

Fax (319) 351-3818

Toll Free 1-800-369-6112

Mt. Pleasant

301 N. Harvey

Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641

Phone (319) 385-7206

Fax (319) 385-7207

Cedar Rapids

901 Ingleside Drive SW

Cedar Rapids, IA 52404

Phone (319) 362-8714

Fax (319) 364-4687

Toll Free 1-800-898-4320

Quad Cities

4002 Kimmel Drive

Davenport, IA 52802

Phone (563) 322-6530

Fax (563) 322-6944

Toll Free 1-866-322-6530

Muscatine

1000 S. Houser

Muscatine, IA 52761

Phone (563) 288-6956

Fax (563) 263-9688

Cedar Falls

1415 E. Dunkerton Road

Cedar Falls, IA 50613

Phone (319) 277-3464

Fax (319) 277-3465

Toll Free 1-800-866-9760

Creston

1451 Highway 34 W

Creston, IA 50801

Phone (641) 782-6681

Fax (641) 782-6681