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Paper

What you can recycle depends on whether you’re recycling at your house or apartment or at a Recycling and Disposal Station. Please see the information below for details.


At your house or apartment

You can recycle:

You can NOT recycle:
  • • Butter boxes
  • • Cardboard - please flatten
  • • Coated containers, aseptic packaging such as milk cartons, soy milk, juice boxes
  • • Coated cardboard such as butter or frozen food boxes - boxes must be empty and clean
  • • Food boxes such as cereal or cracker boxes- throw away liners
  • • Frozen food box
  • • Frozen juice containers- throw away lids and plastic tab
  • • Hardback books - remove hard covers, recycle the pages
  • • Juice box
  • • Mail- window envelopes OK
  • • Milk cartons
  • • Newspaper and magazines
  • • Paper- staples OK
  • • Paperback books
  • • Phone books
  • • Strip-cut shredded paper - in a clear plastic bag
  • • Soy milk cartons
  • • Cardboard with lots of tape- remove tape to recycle cardboard
  • • Cardboard, waxed
  • • Cardboard, soiled or greasy
  • • “Cross cut” shredded paper
  • • Napkins
  • • Paper plates
  • • Paper cups
  • • Paper towels, napkins, tissues
  • • Paper punch holes, confetti



At the Recycling and Disposal Stations

You can recycle at no charge:

You can NOT recycle:
  • • Cardboard – empty and flattened
  • • Mixed paper, such as magazines, junk mail, paperback books, etc.
  • • Newspaper
  • • Waxed or coated paper and cardboard
  • • Paper and cardboard stained with food or grease



Related links
Recycling Do’s & Don’t’s Flyers
Recycling & Disposal Stations

Special & Unacceptable Items at Recycling & Disposal Stations

Recyclables are Banned in Garbage

Hazardous Waste Disposal

From Recycling Bin to Recycled Product
- Take a tour of what happens to your recycling


Links to other sites
Resource Venture
King County Reuse and Recycling Database

Take It Back Network
for computers and electronics