How can I recycle items that are not accepted at the recycling depot or transfer station?
What can I recycle in my blue bin?
Note: Curbside service may vary, depending on whether you are a business or household and where you are located (City, incorporated rural center, un-incorporated area). Call The Dalles Disposal Service for details: (541) 298-1598.
What can I recycle?
Download our recycling brochure
Yes
(A) Put these items together in your blue bin:
- Newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, phone books
- Office paper, colored paper, note pads, letters, paper bags
- Shredded paper in a paper bag (less mess)
- Boxes, such as tissue, shoe, cookie, cereal and cracker style boxes (liner removed)
- Cardboard tubes
- Plastic bottles with a neck (rinse)…like beverages, milk jugs, shampoo, detergent, cleansers. Please remove lids.
- Plastic tubs 6 oz. to 5 gallons in size (cleaned)…like dairy products, cat litter, detergent, lids removed
- Plant containers 4 inches and larger (cleaned)
- Aluminum cans and tin cans (rinsed)
- Clean aluminum foil
- Empty aerosol cans (remove plastic caps)
- Gabletop cartons, such that milk and juice come in
- Aseptic shelf-stable cartons
No
(B) Keep these items separate:
- Glass bottles and jars (rinse, put metal lids in blue recycle bin). Put glass bottles and jars in a separate bucket or container.
- Corrugated cardboard boxes (flattened). Put these next to or underneath your blue bins.
- Motor oil (put in an opaque 1 gallon milk jug with a lid and place next to your curbside garbage and recycling)
Not accepted in curbside recycling:
Clear “clamshell” containers