• 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 aluminum 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!

	Residents in towns marked with this recycling cart may be able to take advantage of single-stream recycling! Call your town or hauler for details.
	Residents in towns marked with these symbols can take advantage of CRRA's expanded plastics recycling!

TOWN/CITY	RECYCLABLES COLLECTED	TRASH & RECYCLING CONTACT
Towns L-M
Lebanon	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass food and beverage containers, metal food and beverage containers, newspaper, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper, motor oil, auto batteries, anti-freeze	860-642-7901
Ledyard	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard	860-464-8740
Lisbon	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, boxboard, mixed paper	860-376-3400
Litchfield	Plastics, glass food and beverage containers, metal food and beverage containers, newspaper, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard, boxboard	860-567-7575
Lyme	Call your town	860-434-7733
Madison	Call your town	203-245-5611
Manchester	Plastics, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, magazines, used motor oil, auto batteries, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper, boxboard	860-647-3248
Mansfield	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper	860-429-3331 (trash) 860-429-3333 (recycling)
Marlborough	Call your town	860-295-6204
Meriden	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper, phone books	203-630-4254
Middlebury	Plastics, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper, leaves, used motor oil, used anti freeze, batteries, boxboard	203-758-2430
Middlefield	Newspapers, books, junk mail, magazines, boxes, #1 and #2 plastics, glass bottles and jars, aluminum cans, boxboard	860-349-7114
Middletown	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass bottles and jars, metal cans, drink boxes, milk cartons, aluminum foil and pie plates, mixed paper, newspaper, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, paperboard, waste oil, antifreeze, lead acid batteries, block styrofoam, corrugated cardboard	860-344-3526
Milford	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, junk mail, newspapers, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans	203-783-3269
Monroe	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, junk mail, newspapers, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans	203-452-5438
Montville	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper	860-848-3030
Morris	#1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass jars and bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper	860-567-7438