• To prepare items for recycling
• What does your town recycle?

Want to know what materials your town collects for recycling? If you have any questions, be sure to call your town's trash and recycling office or click on your town's name for a link to your public works Web site for more information.

To prepare items for recycling:

• Place newspapers in a brown paper shopping bag or tie them in a bundle with cotton or fiber twine. Do not include newspapers contaminated with food waste, paper towels or food wrappers.
• If your town collects mixed paper -- such as junk mail, computer printer paper, magazines and catalogs -- simply place that material in the bag or bundle with your newspapers. Punch out clear plastic or glassine windows from envelopes. Shred any paper with personal information such as your name, account numbers, date of birth or other information to prevent identity theft.
• To recycle boxboard (sometimes referred to as chipboard), such as shoe boxes, cereal boxes and pasta boxes, remove plastic or wax-paper liners from cereal boxes and remove plastic windows from pasta boxes. Flatten these items and include them in the same bag or bundle as your newspapers and mixed paper. Do not include wax- or plastic-coated cardboard.
• Rinse aseptic packages such as juice boxes and milk cartons and remove straws if any.
• Cut corrugated cardboard into small sections and bundle with cotton or fiber twine.
• Rinse glass, aluminum, steel and plastic cans, jars, bottles and food trays. Labels don't need to be removed. Do not include light bulbs, toys, pots and pans, window glass, dishes and other ceramic items, coat hangers, flower pots or plastic bags.
• Don't forget to redeem deposit bottles and cans!