RECYCLING

WESTCHESTER RECYCLES
Recycling is the law in Westchester County. Warnings and violation notices will be issued to residents, businesses, municipalities and haulers who violate the recycling laws. Fines can cost up to $1000 per offense.

In 1996, County government added several materials to the list of what is recycable in Westchester. These new items are: outdated phone books, magazines, junk mail, empty aerosol cans, clean aluminum foil and aluminum pie pans.

Some municipalities and private carting companies have slightly different specifications than the information listed below. Call you local municipal recycling office or carter for details.

THE DOS AND DON'TS OF RECYCLING

NEWSPAPERS
(including glossy inserts)
DO: Put in a brown paper bag, corrugated cardboard box or loose in a recycling bin.
DON'T: Do not bundle or put in plastic bags. Do not recycle paperback or hardcover books.
EXCEPTIONS: Bedford, Mount Vernon, New Castle, North Castle, Peekskill, Pelham Manor, Pound Ridge, Scarsdale, Somers, Town of Ossining (outside village only), Yorktown and customers of Bria, Mayfield, Nello and Somers Carting.

OUTDATED PHONE BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND JUNK MAIL
(including Brochures, catalogs, colored and glossy periodica;s, promotional advertisments, letters and all types of envelopes)
DO: Place with newspaper in a brown paper bag, loose in a recycling bin, or in a corrugated cardboard box.
DON'T: Do not bundle or place in plastic bags. Do not recycle paperback or hardcover books.
EXCEPTIONS: Bedford, Mount Vernon, New Castle, North Castle, Peeskill, Pelham Manor, Pound Ridge, Somers, Town of Ossining (outside village only), Yorktown and customers of Bria, Nello, and Somers Carting.

CORRUGATED CARBOARD BOXES, BROWN PAPER BAGS
DO: Remove excess plastic adhesive tape. Flatten boxes and bags and tie with strings.
DON"T: Do not recycle waxed or gray cardboard (used for cereal, pizza, tissues, paper towels), plastic or styrofoam packing materials. Put these items in the garbage.
EXCEPTIONS: Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Peekskill, and customers of Bria, Mayfield, Mt. Pleasant and Somers carting.

GLASS, JARS AND BOTTLES
(Rinsed, unbroken, any size or color.)
DO: Remove and discard plastic caps, remove metal caps and place loose in bin with metal cans and plastic recycables.
DON'T: Do not recycle light bulbs, drinking glasses, crystal, window/mirror glass, ceramics, kitchen cookware, pesticide/herbicide bottles.
EXCEPTIONS: Mayfield Carting customers.

PLASTIC CONTAINERS
(Coded 1 or 2 on the bottom. For food and drink containers, shampoo, cleaning supplies, etc.)
DO: Rinse and flatten containers. Discard plastic containers in bin with glass and metal recycables.

DON'T: Do not recycle five-gallon plastic pails, foam plastic materials, film plastic, plastic bags,flower pots, toys, plastic items coded 3 through 7 and empty plastic containers which held hazardous materials such as motor oil, pesticides and solvents.
EXCEPTIONS: Bria Carting customers may recycle plastics coded 1,2 and 3. Mayfield Carting customers should place plastic containers in blue or clear plastic bags.

METAL CONTAINERS
(Used for food, drinks, empty aerosol cans, clean aluminum foil and trays)
DO: Rinse food and beverage cans. Empty aerosol cans through normal use and detach plastic caps if possible. Place in bin with glass and plastic recycables.
DON'T: Do not recycle conventional paint cans, metal containers, that held hazardous materials such as pesticides, motor oil or solvents.
EXCEPTIONS: Mayfield Carting customers, place mental containers in blue or clear plastic bags along with glass and plastic recycables. NOTE: There are separate recycling programs for aluminim siding, scrap metal, wire, pipes, tubing, motors, sheet metal, appliances and auto parts. For details, call you municipality's recycling office.

QUESTIONS ABOUT RECYCLING?
Please call your municipal recycling office or carter at rhe phone number listed below.
Ardsley...............693-0117
Bedford...............666-4434
Briarcliff...........941-9105
Bronxville..........337-7338
Buchanan..............737-6858
Cortlandt.............737-0100
Croton................271-3775
Dobbs Ferry...........693-5506
Eastchester...........961-8540
Elmsford..............592-6555
Greenburgh............993-1576
Harrison..............835-2000
Hastings..............478-2170
Irvington.............591-6044
Larchmont/
Mamaroneck (town).....381-7810
Lewisboro.............763-3511
Mamaroneck (village)..777-7745
Mount Kisco...........241-0500
Mount Pleasant........769-1708
Mount Vernon..........665-2467
New Castle............238-8091
New Rochelle..........654-2130
North Castle..........273-9624
North Salem...........669-5110
North Tarrytown.......631-1440
Ossining( Village)....941-4660
Ossining(Town)........941-2241
Peekskill.............734-4130
Pelham................738-2015
Pelham Manor..........738-8820
Pleasantville.........768-3883
Port Chester..........939-5202
Pound Ridge...........764-5511
Rye Brook.............939-0753
Rye City..............967-7464
Scarsdale.............723-3300
Somers................277-3637
Tarrytown.............631-0356
Tuckahoe..............961-4271
White Plains..........422-1293
Yonkers...............377-4357
Yorktown..............245-4438

CARTERS
Bria Carting & Somers Sanitation...277-5007
Mayfield Carting......................666-2300
Mount Pleasant Sanitation.............769-1708
Nello Carting.........................279-5612
Westchester County
Recycling Hotline........637-3030