The following materials do NOT go in the recycling cart:

• No food or other organic waste
• No glass
• No food-contaminated items. This includes food-contaminated cardboard, paper or boxes (such as pizza boxes), aluminum foil, paper plates, paper towels, TV dinner trays, or used tissues.
• No soiled or wet newspaper, rubber bands or string.
• No scrap metal
• Household hazardous waste
• No plastic bags, wide-mouth plastic tubs (such as margarine, yogurt or cottage cheese), plastic trays, plastic toys, automotive product containers, poison or pesticide bottles. No plastic lids.
• No filled or partially filled containers containing household hazardous wastes, such as motor oil, paint, poison, cleaning fluids, insecticides, solvents, acids, gasoline, pool chemicals, highly flammable liquids, radioactive materials, or toxic chemicals. Discard empty household hazardous waste containers in your regular trash.
• No trash.
• Greenery, lawn and garden waste
• Hazardous materials.

Click here to view examples of materials that can and can not be recycled through Pierce County's curbside recycling program. (PDF file)