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City Carton Recycling Public Recycling Drop Site, 3 East Benton, Iowa City OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY! |
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Iowa City, Coralville & Johnson County A Homeowner Guide to Recycling |
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NEW! Books: Place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 3 East Benton, Iowa City. |
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Acceptable Hard Bound Books Paper Bound Books |
Not Acceptable Wire Bound Books Plastic Bound Books |
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NEW! Plastic Grocery Bags: Place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 3 East Benton, Iowa City. Clean film bags, bread bags and softener salt bags also acceptable. |
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Newspapers: Can be loose or tied with a string. Place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 3 East Benton, Iowa City. |
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Acceptable Newspapers Advertising Supplements
Note : Supplements that come in the newspapers can stay with the newspapers when recycled. |
Not Acceptable Magazines Catalogs Phone Books Unwanted Residential Mail Envelopes Books Cereal Boxes Anything With Glue |
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Magazines: Only slick or shiny magazines and catalogs accepted. Place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 3 East Benton, Iowa City. |
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Acceptable Time Newsweek National Geographic, Etc |
Not Acceptable TV Guide, Reader’s Digest Tabloids Phone books |
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Cardboard: Corrugated cardboard only. Please flatten and stack. Drop-off site at City Carton Recycling, 3 East Benton, Iowa City for residential community. The business community will need to call (319) 351-2848 for further details. |
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Acceptable Boxes with staples Brown paper sacks Cereal boxes & Tissue boxes (remove liners) Sacks with string |
Not Acceptable Wax-coated cardboard Feed/seed sacks Pop carriers Anything with food scraps |
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Glass Bottles & Jars: Food and beverage containers only. Please rinse and remove lids. (Metal lids can go with the tin cans). Place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 3 East Benton, Iowa City. |
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Acceptable Soda bottles Beer bottles Juice containers Ketchup bottles Wine & liquor bottles Food containers Note : Put blue tinted bottles in with the green bottles. |
Not Acceptable Drinking glasses Window glass Light bulbs, Mirrors, Crystal Heat resistant ovenware Clay flower pots Ceramic cups & plates |
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Mixed Paper: Place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 3 East Benton, Iowa City. |
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Acceptable Computer paper Typing paper Writing paper Photocopy paper Envelopes Light pastel colored paper File folders Unwanted residential mail |
Cardboard Magazines Books Carbon paper/other sensitized paper Blueprint paper Film, Photographs, Tape, Glue Paper clips & staples are ok. |
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Phone Books: Place in designated container at City Carton Recycling, 3 E. Benton, Iowa City. |
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Plastic Bottles & Jugs: Check the bottom of the container for the recycling logo. Inside the logo is a number identifying the type of plastic. Generally, plastics accepted for recycling are #1 and #2. Place in designated container at City Carton Recycling, 3 E. Benton, Iowa City. |
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Acceptable Food containers Shampoo bottles Milk jugs Detergent bottles Juice jugs Yogurt containers PET containers #3, 4, 5, 7 |
Not Acceptable Oil bottles Toys Laundry baskets Styrofoam Plastic Bags, etc. #6 Food Grade (meat contaminated) |
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Metal 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. Place in designated container at City Carton Recycling, 3 E. Benton, Iowa City. |
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Deposit Cans & Plastic Bottles: Place deposit cans and plastic deposit bottles in container at City Carton Recycling, 3 E. Benton, Iowa City. No Glass Please. The redemption value of your contribution goes to the Iowa City A.M. Rotary club and is distributed among many community agencies including the Crisis Center, Domestic Violence Intervention Program and various International Service Project sponsored by the Rotary. Thank you for your donation! |
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