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NO

• Newspaper
• Cardboard

• Office paper: school notes, flyers, Nexus inserts
  • (Recycle in green containers inside buildings)
• Magazines or textbooks
  • ONLY the green cardboard dumpster behind the library recycles these items. Recycling these items in Isla Vista or Goleta proves more convenient.
• Paper towels, plates, napkins (Trash)
• Coffee cups (Trash)
  • The above items pose the greatest contamination in the clusters. Please be mindful.
• Pizza boxes
• Frozen food boxes or waxed boxes
• (have pic of bertha and dumpster)

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NO

• All plastics labeled #1- #7 are recyclable. Look for the recycling triangle on the bottom of any plastic container.
  
  • Red cups are plastic #5.
    
  • Regular drinking bottles are plastics #1 and #2.
    
  • Nalgene bottles are #7.
    
  • (put this into a nice little simple chart with a recycling triangle for each item)
    Straws
• Coffee lids
  
• Plastic utensils
  
• All aluminum cans

• Saran wrap
  
• Potato chip bags
  
• Plastic bags
  
  • See Isla Vista for more information on where to recycle plastic bags
    
• Aluminum foil

More Information

• What do the numbers mean?
  
  • The numbers indicate the grade of the plastics. As the grades increase, the plastics become harder.

YES

NO

• All glass bottles