 | Office Blue Bin Aluminum, tin, glass, and plastic containers Batteries Cardboard Packing peanuts Paper, newspaper, books Phone books Scrap metal Toner cartridges Transparencies Tyvek envelopes |
What Can Go in Your Personal Blue Bin?
Here's the List!
Recycling at your desk just got easier—much easier.
As a matter of fact, you can now put just about anything into the blue bin at your desk—you can even include things like paper clips, rubber bands, staples, and plastic tabs.
Below you'll find a list of items you can put in your personal blue bin, as well as a short list of items that you can't put in the office blue bins:
| OK for blue bin:
• White and colored paper (all colors) • Newspapers (including inserts) • Magazines • Junk mail • Coated paper (shiny) • Paper ream wrappers • Envelopes (plastic windows and labels OK) • Folders (manila, coated, colored—plastic tabs and metal strips OK) • Computer printouts • Adding-machine tape • Advertisements, brochures, pamphlets • Posters • Books (hard and soft covers) • Manuals with glue bindings • Legal pads, steno pads, spiral notebooks • Receipts • Memo pads | NOT OK for blue bin:
• NO carbon paper • NO lunch bags • NO paper plates and cups • NO napkins and paper towels • NO tissue paper • NO candy wrappers • NO cardboard • NO waxed paper • NO phone books • NO plastic overhead sheets • NO computer disks • NO phone cords or other nonpaper office items |
In addition, you can throw in:
• Staples
• Paper clips
• Spring clamps
• Rubber bands
• Tape
• Post-it notes
• Plastic tabs
• Wire and plastic spirals