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Blue Bin

What Goes In My Recycle Bin?

Newspapers
And everything that comes with it —please put in a brown paper bag inside your Recycle barrel.

Cardboard
Corrugated cardboard cut into 3' x 3' pieces. Boxes flattened and placed inside the barrel or next to it. Brown shopping bags. Egg cartons, cereal boxes (inserts removed).

Metal Containers
All steel, tin and aluminum food & beverage containers (empty & clean, labels & lids okay). Aluminum foil. (No scrap metals)

Magazines
All are okay including catalogs. Place loose in barrel.

Paper & Junk Mail
All types and colors of mixed paper. All junk mail including envelopes. (Please place in see thru plastic bags.)

Glass Containers
All CRV Value glass containers.
All other glass food and beverage containers (empty & clean, labels & lids okay).

Plastics
ALL CRV plastic containers.
Plastics #1-#7
Rigid plastics (Crates and Buckets)

Download the Recycling Flyer (pdf).

Styrofoam, plastic, shopping bags, flower pots, hoses, pvc pipes, etc., do not belong in the Recycle Bin

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Environmental Excellence Awards

VC Max

Big Belly, Ventura's solar powered trash compactor

Ventura is the first California City to Deploy BigBelly!
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