City Agency Office Paper Recycling

How does the program work?
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About 85% of our trash can be recycled. It is estimated that each of us currently generates more than a pound of recyclable paper every day. That really adds up!

How does the program work?

The 4-step Office Paper Recycling Program, illustrated below, makes recycling easy.

	1. Employees separate recyclable paper (colored and white) into desk-top folders or desk-side box City employees are provided with desktop folders or desk-side boxes to make it easy to sort recyclable office paper while you work. The tabbed divider in your folder or the partition in your in the box is designed to separate the white paper from the colored/newspaper.
	2. Employees empty full folders into centralized drop-off containers, usually located near copy machines Please make sure you put only paper that can be recycled into the containers. The wrong type of paper can contaminate and ruin an entire batch of recyclable paper. (See below for what can and can't be recycled.) Flatten corrugated cardboard boxes and leave them alongside the stackable containers.
	3. Custodial staff collects paper from centralized drop-off containers and deposits in labeled collection carts located in recycling pick-up zones of the facility.
	4. Recyclable paper is picked up by a recycler, where the paper is resorted, baled and shipped off island to recycling markets.

You can recycle...

White bond paper, including:

Typing paper
Letterhead
Copier paper
Memos
"Blueprints" - printed with black ink

Colored paper, including:

Colored bond paper
Carbonless forms
Self-stick notes

Newspaper
Cardboard (flatten and leave next to bins)
(Staples need not be removed from any type of paper)

You cannot recycle...

Telephone books
File (manila) folders
Carbon paper
Envelopes
Photographs and blueprints (blue inked)
Glossy, coated paper
Rubber bands
Paper clips
Binders: glued, metal & spiral
Gummed labels, adhesives
Wrappers, bags, hand towels, tissues, napkins, paper cups & plates

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City Agency Office Paper Recycling

How does the program work?

1. Employees separate recyclable paper (colored and white) into desk-top folders or desk-side box

2. Employees empty full folders into centralized drop-off containers, usually located near copy machines

City Facilities/Recycling Statistics

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