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Recycle Chart
Where to Recycle
Updated: Feb 10, 2003

Palo Alto Curbside Recycling
650/493-4894
Item Palo Alto Recycling Center
650/496-5910
Enterprise Recycling Center (Menlo Park)
650/364-3333
Stanford Recycling Center
650/723-0919
Foothill Recycling Center
650/967-3034
Single-family homes Apartments* Business*
Aluminum cans, glass bottles, jars X X
buyback
X X
buyback
X X X
Tin cans X . X X X X X
No. 1 plastics PETE X
bottles only
X
buyback
X X X X X
No. 2 plastics HDPE Xbottles only
X. X X
X
X
X
non-colored
Newspaper X X
X X X X X
Brown bags, corrugated cardboard X X
buyback
X X X

.X
fee

X
fee

White paper, computer paper, colored paper, magazines X X X X X. ..X
fee
X
fee
Blueprint paper X
residents only
. . X . . .
Junk mail, cereal boxes X . X X X. X. X
Phone books X X .X X . . .
Motor oil X
residents only
. . X
Mtn. View residents only
X . .
Oil filters X
residents only
. .   .X
call
. .
Yard waste X
fee
.   .X X .X
call.
..X
call
Polystyrene Foam #6
no food containers
Xresidents only . . . . . .
Anti-freeze X
residents only
. . . . . .
Small appliances, scrap metal X . X .   . .
Christmas trees .X . .   Xunflocked only X .
Batteries
(household and auto)
X
residents only
. . . X
Household
only
. .
Mattresses, tires, furniture, large appliances X
fee
.   . X
annual
.X
annual 

.X
annual

PLEASE NOTE: Some items require separate containers. Please contact location for more information.
Information believed to be correct at time of posting. Subject to change without notice.

* Call the Recycling Center to start recycling these items at your apartment or business.

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