Recycling Guidelines for Unincorporated Sarasota County

Red Container

• Cardboard (NEW: including flattened pizza boxes)
• Writing and office paper
• Junk mail
• Envelopes (including envelopes with windows)
• Newspapers (including inserts)
• Magazines, catalogs, phonebooks
• Paperboard (cereal boxes without liners, soda boxes, tissue boxes, etc.)
• Paperback books (no hardback books)
• Brown paper bags
• Shredded paper (place in paper bag, NO plastic bags)

Place food-contaminated paper/cardboard products in the garbage. Remove liner and food from pizza boxes. Flatten cardboard boxes and cut down all cardboard to 2 feet by 3 feet.

Blue Container

• Aluminum cans/foil trays
• Steel and tin cans and lids
• Aerosol cans (empty)
• Glass bottles and jars (all colors)
• Metal jar lids
• Drink boxes
• Milk/juice cartons

NEW: All plastics with the symbol numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 and that fit in the recycling bin (no Styrofoam®/Polystyrene number 6 materials)

• No plastic bags, Styrofoam® products, coat hangers, pots, pans, dishes, pane glass or glassware
• Lightly rinse all containers

Need a recycling bin? Call 493-4100!
Please go to www.scgov.net or call 861-5000 for more information or if you have questions!