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Video showcasing Casella’s upgraded Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Willimantic, Connecticut, featuring advanced recycling equipment including optical sorters, ballistic separators, aspiration systems, and glass processing units. Scenes highlight conveyor belts moving mixed recyclables, automated sorting technology, and modernized infrastructure inside a brightly lit industrial facility.

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

  • Collection of empty metal cans and aluminum containers of various shapes and sizes arranged on a bright green surface. Items include cylindrical food cans, beverage cans with pull tabs, and rectangular tins with gold and silver lids, some opened and others partially crushed.

    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.

Person wearing a long-sleeve green shirt rinses a clear plastic bottle under a kitchen faucet at a white countertop sink. Other recyclable items, including a plastic water bottle, a gallon milk jug, a green soda bottle, a small white container, and several white plastic caps, are arranged on the counter. The background features a tiled backsplash, a toaster, and a coffee maker. 1

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!

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The Journey of Your Recyclables

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!

Video tour of a Casella recycling facility showing conveyor belts moving mixed recyclables, automated sorting equipment, and workers in high-visibility safety gear. Scenes highlight the recycling process from curbside collection to material separation, with on-screen tips for proper recycling practices under the Recycle Better™ program.

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!

Video promoting Casella’s Recycle Better™ initiative, featuring everyday household items such as plastic spread containers, yogurt tubs, reusable water bottles, and iced coffee cups being placed into recycling bins. Scenes highlight curbside recycling, clean and empty containers, and educational text overlays encouraging sustainable choices.

Materials We Recycle

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.

A worker operating a forklift moves large bales of compressed recyclable materials, in a recycling facility.

Solutions That Work for Your Home and Business

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.

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Still Have Some Questions?

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.