Updated 22-Jan-08

City Carton Recycling

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1-800-369-6112

Recycling Programs

Recycling Equipment

Brokerage

Marketing

Services

Fiber Fuel

Confidential Shredding

Newspapers: Can be loose or tied with a string. Place in drop-off container.

Cardboard: Corrugated cardboard only. Please flatten and stack. Drop-off site available at City Carton Recycling, 1000 S. Houser, Muscatine for residential community. The business community will need to call 563-288-6956 for further details.

Magazines: Only slick or shiny magazines and catalogs accepted.

Plastic Bottles & Jugs: Containers Only. 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 type 1 and 2 post consumer food grade bottles.

Text Box: 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).

Office Paper: Can be tied with string, placed in box or put in paper bags. Then place in drop-off container at City Carton Recycling, 1000 South Houser, Muscatine.

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.

Muscatine and Muscatine County

A Homeowner Guide to Recycling

Drop Off Sites

 

Muscatine Recycling & Transfer Station

1000 S. Houser

 

Whether Your Business is Manufacturing,

Retail  or Professional Services,

City Carton Has Solutions to Your

Recycling Challenges!

City Carton Recycling

Muscatine

1000 S. Houser

Muscatine, Iowa 52761

 

Phone (563) 288-6956

Toll Free 1-800-369-6112

Tim Ockenfels, Reg. Plant Mgr.

Muscatine Mall

Park Avenue

 

Econo Foods

Highway 61 & 38

 

Wal-Mart

Highway 61

 

Downtown Sun Mart

4th & Cedar Street

 

South-end Sun Mart

807 Grandview

 

Lucas Street & Knott Avenue

2200 Block of Lucas

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

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

 

Acceptable

Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Etc

Not Acceptable

TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, Tabloids

Phone books

Acceptable

Clear Only

Not Acceptable

Drinking glasses, Window glass

Light bulbs, Mirrors, Crystal

Heat resistant ovenware, Clay flower pots

Ceramic cups & plates

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

Food containers

Shampoo bottles

Milk jugs

Detergent bottles

Bleach Jugs

Butter containers

Juice jugs

Not Acceptable

Oil bottles

Toys

Clam shells

Laundry baskets

Etc.

Phone (319) 351-2848

Toll Free 1-800-369-6112

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