We recommend it as your first source of information. The Waste Wizard in the Fitchburg Trash & Recycling Tool above allows you to research options to dispose of items that don't fit or shouldn't belong in your cart. Items That Don't Fit in Carts (Bulk Items) Please follow the guideline below to limit recycling contamination. Visit the Recycling Do's and Don'ts page by clicking the link.If you need an additional trash cart, they can be leased from the City for $100 per year following this link. Bags of trash do not belong in your recycling cart. Bags of trash: Your recycling cart is not an extension of your trash cart.Wood, carpets, and other large items: these items should go in your trash cart.Styrofoam: Styrofoam packing material and food containers are not accepted in the City recycling program and should be put in your trash cart.You will need a landfill or recycling pass from the Health Department to do so. Any other metal item such as bikes, mop and broom handles and brake disks should be dropped off at the metal pile at the landfill. Metals: The only metals acceptable in your recycling cart are aluminum cans, steel cans, aerosol cans, aluminum foil wrap, aluminum pie plates and aluminum baking trays.These include toys, shovels, storage bins, laundry baskets, vacuum cleaners, etc. Non-recyclable plastics: Plastic films, shrink wrap and any plastic item that does not have a numbered recycling symbol (1 through 7) are not recyclable and should go in your trash cart.
See bottom of this page for disposal options.
Pizza Boxes: Can be recycled, even with grease on them but no food inside please and no plastic or wax wrap!.They can, however, be returned to the retailers that have a bag recycling deposit box. Plastic Bags: Although they have a recycling symbol on them, they are not accepted in the City recycling program.Contamination occurs when non-recyclable items are put in your recycling cart. Our community is plagued by recycling contamination.
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