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Recycle Bins
Recycle Bins provided by Keep Salem Beautiful
through grant funding from the Illinois Environment Protection Agency
located on the 200 block of N. Broadway
(just south of the Medicine Shoppe)

2 weeks each month beginning on the 2nd Friday of the month
Friday, April 9-22
Friday, May 14-27
Friday, June 11-24
Friday, July 9-22
Friday, August 13-26
Friday, September 10-23

What is acceptable and how to prepare materials for recycling:

Your recycling does not need to be separated.

Paper (newspaper, magazines, office paper):
Dry paper only!
Dump loose or use paper sacks...no plastic bags, please!
NO: paper with crayons or paint, construction paper, plastic or metal spines

Cardboard (examples: corrugated or cereal boxes):
Dry & flattened

Steel Cans (Tin food cans, empty dry paint cans, empty aerosol cans, can lids & labels
Rinse and flatten.
NO: appliances, scrap metal, jar lids

Aluminum (beverage cans, aluminum foil sheets & pans):
Rinse and flatten.
NO: window screens

#1 Plastic (clear plastic bottles labeled #1 with narrow neck):
(example: soda bottles)
Rinse and flatten.
NO: bottle caps

#2 Natural Plastic (#2 HDPE plastic bottles with seam) or #2 colored plastic (#2 HDPE rigid, colored plastic bottles)
(example: milk jugs, bleach bottles, liquid laundry bottle)
Labels okay
Remove caps, rinse and flatten.
NO: cottage cheese or yogurt containers, food trays, plastic bags, food shells, plastics labeled #3-#7









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