Recycling is Mandatory on Nantucket

The Nantucket Solid Waste Recycling and Composting Facility is the most comprehensive in the Commonwealth and in face, a leader in the nation. The estimated amount of materials recycled and diverted from landfilling is close to 80%. Your cooperation with Nantucket Landfill regulations will help ensure the preservation of our beautiful island for years to come. All trash must be sorted into separate clear plastic bags. To guide you in this process, please note the following:

RECYCLABLES

• Shipping Boxes (clean, corrugated cardboard) • Plastics (bottles, cups, jars, jugs, and tubs) • Tin/Aluminum (food and beverage cans, bottle and jar lids, aluminum foil items) • Glass (bottles and jars). Sort lids and caps according to their material.

COMPOSTABLE WASTE

Food scraps and mixed paper. This includes, for example, pizza/food boxes, paper towels, paper bags, newspapers, magazines, tissues, coffee grounds, pet waste.

Note: waxed paper items (and all other items made from a mix of materials) go in Non-Recyclable & Non-Compostable Waste.

NON-RECYCLABLE & NON-COMPOSTABLE WASTE

Household waste items that do not belong in the other streams. This includes: plastic bags and other plastic film, Styrofoam, plastic wrappers, chip bags, milk cartons, cleaning wipes, diapers, incandescent lights, textiles that are not reusable (you can leave your reusable textiles at the Take-It-or-Leave-It), and all items and packaging made from a mix of materials (when possible, please separate items made from a mix of materials into their separate waste streams).

* All items should be clean and empty, and must be contained in clear plastic bags.

** All loads must be covered when en-route to the landfill. Finescanbeissuedfortrashblowingfromvehicles. If trash is not sorted, you will be charged a minimum of $200 from your security deposit

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Clean corrugated cardboard.

Empty and flatten.

Note: Bubblewrap, Styrofoam peanuts

and inflated air pillow packaging

are Non-Recyclable Non-Compostable

waste (NRNC).

Bottles, cups, jars, jugs and tubs.

Empty, rinse and replace cap.

Cans, aluminum foil items, lids and

bottle caps.

Note: Metal aerosol cans go in the

Scrap Metal bin.

Remove lids and caps to Tin/Alumi-

num or Plastics.

Bottles and jars.

Empty and rinse.

Note: window glass or drinking glasses

belong in Non-Recyclable

Non-Compostable waste (NRNC).

Food scraps and mixed paper.

All food waste, pizza boxes, cracker and cereal

boxes, paper towels, paper bags, newspapers,

magazines, tissues, co�ee grounds, cooking oil/grease, unbagged pet waste, bones.

Non-recyclable and non-compostable

waste.

Plastic bags, Styrofoam, plastic wrappers, cleaning

wipes, diapers, incandescent lights,

milk cartons, waxed paper, Tetrapacks, dryer lint,

individual dog waste bags, chip bags,

products made from a mix of materials.

Desechos biodegradables

Desechos No biodegradables

No reciclables

GlassVidrio

Soda

Tin/AluminumLata/Aluminio

PlasticsPlástico

Shipping Boxes

Cajas de embalar

W A S T E STREAMS

R E C Y C L A B L EW A S T E ( R )

COMPOSTABLE WASTE (C)

NON-RECYCLABLENON-COMPOSTABLE

WASTE (NRNC)

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*Can be delivered in a clear plastic bag.

Paper bag preferred.

Empty and rinse.