Recycling is Mandatory on Nantucket
The Nantucket Solid Waste Recycling and Composting Facility is the most comprehensive in the Commonwealth and in face, a leader in the nation. The estimated amount of materials recycled and diverted from landfilling is close to 80%. Your cooperation with Nantucket Landfill regulations will help ensure the preservation of our beautiful island for years to come. All trash must be sorted into separate clear plastic bags. To guide you in this process, please note the following:
RECYCLABLES
• Shipping Boxes (clean, corrugated cardboard) • Plastics (bottles, cups, jars, jugs, and tubs) • Tin/Aluminum (food and beverage cans, bottle and jar lids, aluminum foil items) • Glass (bottles and jars). Sort lids and caps according to their material.
COMPOSTABLE WASTE
Food scraps and mixed paper. This includes, for example, pizza/food boxes, paper towels, paper bags, newspapers, magazines, tissues, coffee grounds, pet waste.
Note: waxed paper items (and all other items made from a mix of materials) go in Non-Recyclable & Non-Compostable Waste.
NON-RECYCLABLE & NON-COMPOSTABLE WASTE
Household waste items that do not belong in the other streams. This includes: plastic bags and other plastic film, Styrofoam, plastic wrappers, chip bags, milk cartons, cleaning wipes, diapers, incandescent lights, textiles that are not reusable (you can leave your reusable textiles at the Take-It-or-Leave-It), and all items and packaging made from a mix of materials (when possible, please separate items made from a mix of materials into their separate waste streams).
* All items should be clean and empty, and must be contained in clear plastic bags.
** All loads must be covered when en-route to the landfill. Finescanbeissuedfortrashblowingfromvehicles. If trash is not sorted, you will be charged a minimum of $200 from your security deposit
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Clean corrugated cardboard.
Empty and flatten.
Note: Bubblewrap, Styrofoam peanuts
and inflated air pillow packaging
are Non-Recyclable Non-Compostable
waste (NRNC).
Bottles, cups, jars, jugs and tubs.
Empty, rinse and replace cap.
Cans, aluminum foil items, lids and
bottle caps.
Note: Metal aerosol cans go in the
Scrap Metal bin.
Remove lids and caps to Tin/Alumi-
num or Plastics.
Bottles and jars.
Empty and rinse.
Note: window glass or drinking glasses
belong in Non-Recyclable
Non-Compostable waste (NRNC).
Food scraps and mixed paper.
All food waste, pizza boxes, cracker and cereal
boxes, paper towels, paper bags, newspapers,
magazines, tissues, co�ee grounds, cooking oil/grease, unbagged pet waste, bones.
Non-recyclable and non-compostable
waste.
Plastic bags, Styrofoam, plastic wrappers, cleaning
wipes, diapers, incandescent lights,
milk cartons, waxed paper, Tetrapacks, dryer lint,
individual dog waste bags, chip bags,
products made from a mix of materials.
Desechos biodegradables
Desechos No biodegradables
No reciclables
GlassVidrio
Soda
Tin/AluminumLata/Aluminio
PlasticsPlástico
Shipping Boxes
Cajas de embalar
W A S T E STREAMS
R E C Y C L A B L EW A S T E ( R )
COMPOSTABLE WASTE (C)
NON-RECYCLABLENON-COMPOSTABLE
WASTE (NRNC)
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*Can be delivered in a clear plastic bag.
Paper bag preferred.
Empty and rinse.