Unity Area Regional Recycling Center
MATERIALS NOT ACCEPTED
- Food waste
- Grass clippings, lawn, compost
- Furniture (e.g. brown goods)
- Construction debris, wood, sheet rock, demolition debris
- Large appliances such as clothes dryers, washers, dishwashers, stoves
- Tires
- Trash
- Styrofoam- including sheet foam, formed packing foam, foam rubber.
- Exception: We accept reusable foam packing peanuts, both the biodegradable and non-biodegradable type.
- PVC
- Vinyl
- Rubber and canvas
- Soil or mulch bags
- Plastics from agricultural use--greenhouses, hoop houses, silage/haylage bags, boat wrap
- Woven plastic bags (plastic dog/cat food bags, grain bags, livestock feed bags).
- Candy wrappers, potato chip/pretzel bags.
- Wet paper (water is a contaminant)
- Auto or industrial fluids (petroliates) or the containers for these fluids:
- Motor oil, transmission oil, power steering fluid, brake fluid, 2-cycle oil, hydraulic fluids, combustible liquids.
- "Paper" juice cartons, "paper" ice cream containers- these "paper" items are impregnated with a wax, and currently have no market.
- Tempered glass- i.e. windows, mirrors, auto glass, picture frame glass. These items have different fracturing properties than the accepted bottles and jars.
- Rigid Plastic