Discover videos, posters, activities, and more to help you understand what belongs in your recycling bin. As a leader in sustainability and resource management, Casella brings decades of expertise to support stronger, cleaner recycling systems in your community, and it all begins at your bin!
Recycle Better™ With Casella
Discover videos, posters, activities, and more to help you understand what belongs in your recycling bin. As a leader in sustainability and resource management, Casella brings decades of expertise to support stronger, cleaner recycling systems in your community, and it all begins at your bin!
Recycling Tip
Can you recycle all metal items? Not exactly.
Everyday items like aluminum cans and tins are recyclable. Each of these materials can be recovered and renewed at Casella’s advanced recycling facilities, supporting our circular economic commitment. Heavier metals—like pots or tools—can damage recycling equipment. Please bring those to a local drop-off center or scrapyard instead.
Let’s Recycle Better™ Together
Wondering what can go in your recycling bin? Here’s a guide to accepted materials.
Belongs in Recycling
The items below are recyclable and can be captured at our recycling facilities. If you see it on this list, you can confidently toss it into your recycling bin!
Does Not Belong in Recycling
The following items are not recyclable in our facilities. Even worse, their presence can seriously disrupt the recycling process. Please make sure your bin does not contain these items. And tell your friends!
General Recycling Tips
Recycle Better by keeping materials clean, knowing what belongs in the bin, and avoiding contamination to help create a more sustainable future.
Do I need to rinse my recyclables?
Yes. Recyclables should be empty. Take that last sip and enjoy that last bite! And give the container a rinse when you can.
Should recyclables be bagged?
No. Remember to keep it loose! Bagged recyclables cannot be sorted, so if you collect your recyclables in a bag, be sure to dump them out when you get to your bin.
Why does shape matter in recycling?
Small and narrow items slip through the cracks in our sorting equipment and cannot be recovered. They should go in the trash. Caps are OK if you twist them back onto the container.
Not sure? Look it up!
Americans toss far too many non-recyclable items in their recycling bins. These sorting mistakes add up and hurt recycling programs. We all need to understand what’s acceptable in our local recycling program and if you’re not sure, look it up!
Don’t forget to reduce and reuse!
Recycling is great! And waste reduction and reuse can be even better. Don’t forget to reduce and reuse whenever you can.
Where does your recycling go?
Casella sorts and processes recyclables at regional MRFs using advanced technology, ensuring that materials are reused responsibly.
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Yes. Recyclables should be empty. Take that last sip and enjoy that last bite! And give the container a rinse when you can.
Recycling Resources and Toolkits
Explore Casella’s recycling posters, videos, and toolkits designed to help schools, communities, and businesses recycle better. Together, we can keep recycling strong and sustainable, and it all begins at your bin!
Have you ever wondered what happens to your recyclables after they get hauled away? Can that jumble of mixed recyclables really be sorted back out again? How do they do it? Answer these questions and more with this virtual tour of a Casella recycling facility!
Recycle Better™ at Home and Away
Through a collaboration with The Recycling Partnership grant program, Casella has implemented robotics and artificial intelligence to help improve the recycling of polypropylene, more commonly known as Number 5 plastic. This video is part of a new educational campaign aimed at capturing more of this material and giving it a new life through our recycling process. Check out a few commonly asked questions and be sure to help your friends, families, and neighbors to Recycle Better!
With coordination, many common waste materials can be recycled. This can reduce the need to harvest and extract new resources. By conserving and extending the useful life of materials such as paper, plastic, metal, and glass, we create benefits that ripple across global supply chains to protect and conserve our air, water, climate, habitat, and biodiversity.
Casella delivers reliable, forward-thinking services that are designed to meet the needs of homes and businesses alike. From flexible container rentals to recycling programs that prioritize resource renewal, we make it easy to manage materials responsibly and efficiently.
Email us at info@casella.com or call 802-786-4044 (Mon-Fri 7:00 am-5:00 pm, Sat 8:00 am-12:00 pm) and someone from our Customer Care team will respond to you in a timely manner.