Recycling

USA Hauling & Recycling is proud to offer Single Stream Recycling to all of our curbside refuse/recycling customers, making it easy for you to recycle easily and effectively from home. This innovative sorting technology at our Murphy Road Recycling/Automated Material Handling facility allows residents to put all of their recyclables- plastic, paper, metal and more, into a single recycling bin. This approach allows us to recycle more materials than ever before, saving valuable resources and minimizing environmental impact.

USA Hauling & Recycling - Single Stream Recycling Guidelines:

Unacceptable items:

• No Plastic Bags/Shrink-wrap or Cellophane Allowed
• No Plastic pails or paint cans (example construction pails)
• Paper: Wax paper, soiled paper, soiled napkins & paper towels, pet food bags & dryer sheets (example pizza boxes)
• Plastics: Any plastic that doesn't have a number on it. (Examples - garden hose, trash and ziplock bags, cereal box bags, bubble wrap, clear plastic wrap, potato chip bags, single cheese wrappers, soiled plastic bottles and bags)
• All Styrofoam: While it may seem recyclable, there is not enough material left after breaking it down to make a new product. TIP - bring your own container to avoid having to use Styrofoam
• Aluminum: Soiled aluminum foil, soiled tin cans, no frying pans
• Cardboard: Soiled pizza boxes and soiled cardboard. (Examples - grease, mold, paint)
• Glass: Windowpane glass, plated glass (windshield glass)

Acceptable Items:

• Magazines
• Paper Bags
• Junk Mail
• Office Paper
• Phone Books
• Newspapers
• Cardboard (flattened)
• Paperboard
• Plastics (#1-7)
• Aluminum (cans, foil, pans)
• Metal Cans/Containers
• Glass Bottles/Jars

Helpful Hints:

• Do not place recyclables in cardboard boxes
• Empty out all liquids, put bottle caps back on your bottles, Squeeze air out of plastic bottles (our opticals work on air pressure)
• Flatten cardboard boxes