Recycling

Glass Recycling Changes: Effective March 2, 2009

Cardboard
Cardboard can be dropped off at drop off locations or residents who receive City of Muscatine Refuse Collection services can place cardboard at the curb on their regular refuse collection day. (for residential use only - the business community will need to drop off cardboard at the Recycling and Transfer Station during office hours; call for further details) please flatten and stack cardboard and place in drop-off containers
Acceptable: boxes with staples, brown paper sacks, chipboard (cereal and tissue boxes - remove liners), sacks with strings, phonebooks
Not Acceptable with Cardboard: wax-coated cardboard, feed/seed sacks, anything with food scraps

Glass Bottles and Jars
All glass must be brought to the Muscatine Recycling Center and Transfer Station. Drop off containers are located in front of the building. food and beverage containers only; these bottles must be rinsed and the lids removed (metal lids can go with tin cans), place glass in drop off containers according to color (clear, green, brown)
Acceptable: soda bottles, beer bottles, juice containers, ketchup bottles, wine and liquor bottles, food containers
Not Acceptable with Glass Bottles and Jars: drinking glasses, window glass, light bulbs, mirrors, crystal ovenware, ceramic cups and plates, clay flower pots, heat resistant/pyrex

Magazines
only slick or shiny magazines and catalogs accepted; may be dropped off loose, tied with string,
Acceptable: Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, slick catalogs, etc
Not Acceptable with Magazines: TV Guide, Reader's Digest, tabloids, phone books, books

Metal Cans
all tin and aluminum cans are acceptable, as well as clean aluminum foil; rinse the can and remove label if possible, crush can or stack smaller ones inside larger cans then place in drop-off containers

Newspapers
can be tied with a string, then placed in the drop-off containers
Acceptable: newspapers, advertising supplements, phonebooks
Not Acceptable with Newspapers: magazines, catalogs, junk mail, envelopes, books, cereal boxes

Office Paper
can be tied with string, then place in drop-off containers
Acceptable: computer paper, typing paper, writing paper, photocopy paper, envelopes, colored paper, file folders, unwanted residential mail
Not Acceptable with Office Paper: newspapers, cardboard, magazines, books, carbon paper, other sensitized paper, blue print paper, film, photographs, tape or glue, metal objects, spiral binders, fasteners

Plastic Bottles and Jugs
check the bottom of the container for the recycling logo - inside the logo is a number identifying the type of plastic; plastics accepted for recycling at the drop-off containers are type 1 through 7, please remove all caps and lids, containers must be rinsed and crushed
Acceptable: food containers, shampoo bottles, mild jugs, butter containers, detergent bottles, leach jugs, juice jugs, yogurt containers, PET containers, high density polyethylene bottles and jars with seams across the bottom
Not Acceptable with Plastic Bottles and Jugs: motor oil bottles

See City Carton's page for more information on recycling.

Current Drop-Off Sites