McIntire Road Recycling Attendant

	Category 1: Boxboard This category includes brown paper and compressed paper from items such as cereal and tissue boxes, brown paper bags, and pet feed sacks (without the plastic liner). Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) takes the boxboard to its Paper Sort Facility, where it is baled and later sold to mills for low grade paper. This paper generally becomes the compressed paper that makes things like the back of legal pads.
	Category 2: File Stock This category includes junk mail, computer paper, legal paper, photocopied paper, and shredded paper. It is not necessary to remove staples. Please do not put magazines, carbon paper, newspapers, or brown paper in with the file stock. The file stock is taken to RSWA’s Paper Sort Facility where it is compacted into shipping trailers. The material is sent to a processor to be baled and then shipped to paper mills. From this resource items such as tissue and writing paper are made.
	Category 3: Corrugated (Cardboard) This category only includes shipping boxes. No other paper or strings should be placed in with this grade. The corrugated is shipped directly from the McIntire Road Recycling Center to a processor. It is then baled and shipped to markets to be made into new corrugated boxes.
	Category 4: Newspaper and Magazines Newspapers and magazines are to be tossed in the trailer. Magazines can include anything from catalogs to newspaper inserts to "glossy" paper brochures. Shredded newspaper is also accepted. These items are shipped to a paper mill which uses the clay in the magazines to extract the print from the newspaper pulp. This means less chemicals are used to produce recycled fiber. The paper is then sold to companies like The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal for the daily newspaper editions.
	Category 5: Clear Glass Only clean, clear (non-colored) food and beverage jars and bottles may be deposited into this category. Please do not put light bulbs, window glass, and pyrex into this category. Adding non-recyclable items contaminate the load to the point that it may have to be sent to the landfill. You do not need to remove the labels from glass jars, bottles or cans.
	Category 6: Green and Blue Glass Only clean green and blue glass bottles and jars may be deposited into this bin. Look closely for bottles that first appear to be clear, but have a green tint to them. These bottles should go into the Green/Blue bin.
	Category 7: Brown and Yellow Glass Brown (amber) and yellow tinted glass bottles and jars may be placed in this bin. All glass bottles and jars are shipped to a processor which manufactures new glass bottles and jars.
	Category 8: Plastic Only #1 and #2 numbered plastics, excluding any automotive or lawn & garden containers, may be deposited into this bin. Please do not put any other plastics in the bin. We do not have a local processor for the other plastics. If you have a choice, buy items in metal or glass containers which take less energy to recycle than plastic.
	Category 9: Metal and Aluminum Cans Deposit your aluminum and steel cans as well as your empty aerosol cans into this bin. Please flatten cans, except aerosol, to help save space. The cans are shipped to a processor, and then to a manufacturer who makes new cans, saving 95% of the energy needed to make new metal from ore.