Clay County

Plastic Bottles, 1’s & 2’s only – The # is usually within a triangle on the bottom, or near the bottom of the container. For example, most soft drink and water bottles are #1’s. Milk and laundry soap jugs are usually #2’s.

Aluminum cans

Corrugated Cardboard

Scrap Metal, including appliances such as dish washers, washing machines and ovens (nothing with freon!!)

Mixed Paper, including newspapers, magazines, junk mail and cereal boxes. If its paper and not corrugated it goes in this category.

Motor Oil

Antifreeze

Car batteries

If you would like to recycle a refrigerator or anything with Freon, there is no charge for this.

Rinse all containers

Remove lids from plastic bottles

Place recyclables loose in the bins (e.g., not in bags)

You do not have to remove any labels.

Do not put soiled items such as paper towels, paper plates, or napkins in the recycling bins

Break down corrugated boxes if possible

Plastics with the numbers 3-9, such as yogurt or margarine containers

Glass bottles – recycling glass bottles is not feasible at present because of our location, shipping costs, minimum load requirements, current and historical selling prices, infrastructure costs, labor costs, fuel costs, etc. We continue to monitor current pricing, however, and if this changes, we will post this on this page and at the Transfer Station.

Ask at the Transfer Station about how to dispose of these properly:

Old cars, boats and trailers

Gasoline

Insecticides

Liquid Latex and Oil Paint

Medical Waste

Fluorescent Light Ballasts

Asbestos

PCBs