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Recycling Tips:


Curbside Recycling


If you live in an area where curbside recycling service is offered by a commercial garbage company, here's some information that may be helpful.

What you can recycle:

  • Glass bottles, jars
  • Tin cans (Please rinse)
  • Aluminums cans
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs (No. 1 thru 7)
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines
  • Junk Mail
  • Corrugated Cardboard
  • Cereal Boxes (Please remove liner)
  • Phone Books

What should not be recycled:

  • Waxed cartons (Milk, juice)
  • Window glass, stemware
  • Pizza boxes (used)
  • Food Waste (Much food waste can be composted, see compost page)
  • Hazardous Waste containers (See HHW page)
  • Scrap metal
  • Plastic film, plastic bags  
  • Medical waste, used medical sharps


Those areas that offer curbside recycling through their garbage Company:

  • City of Oroville, Including Kelly Ridge, South Oroville & Thermalito
  • City of Gridley
  • City of Biggs
  • City of Chico and the greater Chico urban area as well as the Community of Durham.
  • Town of Paradise, including the Magalia/Upper Ridge area up to Steiffer Rd.
  • Additional areas may have curbside recycling.  Contact your service provider for specific areas.

    For more information on curbside recycling please contact your garbage company.
    • Waste Management: 893-4777
    • Recology of Butte-Colusa Counties: 533-5868 (Now serving Forest Ranch with curbside recycling)
    • Northern Recycling & Waste Services: 876-3340
    • Northern Recycling & Waste Services Recycling Calendar for 2012 (pdf)

     

     Curbside Greenwaste Recycling:

    If you live in an area where curbside greenwaste recycling service is offered by a commercial garbage company, here's some information that may be helpful.

    What you can recycle:

    • Grass clippings, weeds
    • Leaves
    • Pine needles, pine cones
    • Brush, small branches

    What you can not recycle:

    • Palm fronds
    • Pampas grass
    • Anything over 3 inches in diameter
    • Anything over 3 feet long
    • Food waste
    • Lumber

    Those areas that offer curbside greenwaste recycling through their garbage company:

    • City of Oroville, Including Kelly Ridge, South Oroville & Thermalito
    • City of Gridley
    • City of Biggs
    • City of Chico and the greater Chico urban area as well as the Community of Durham.
    • Town of Paradise, including the Magalia/Upper Ridge area up to Steiffer Rd.

    For more information on curbside greenwaste recycling please contact your garbage company

    • Waste Management: 893-4777
    • Recology Butte-Colusa Counties : 538-5868
    • Northern Recycling & Waste Services: 876-3340

     
     
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