What items are accepted for curbside recycling in Unincorporated Orange County?

Question: What items are accepted for curbside recycling in Unincorporated Orange County?

Before you start to recycle, find out what is accepted for recycling in Unincorporated Orange County.

Answer:

 Orange recycling bins should be used for the following:

• Pasteboard (i.e., cereal boxes, empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls, and shoe boxes)
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Brown paper grocery bags
• Corrugated cardboard (flattened and cut down to no larger than 3 ft. by 3 ft.)
• Catalogs
• Telephone books
• Junk mail
• Office paper

Green recycling bins should be used for the following:

• Empty aerosol cans
• Aluminum and tin cans
• Glass bottles and jars
• All drink boxes and milk/juice cartons
• All plastic containers with the #1-PETE or #2-HDPE symbol on the bottom
• Plastic bottles #3 - #7 with a neck