(Green) Living With Cleandom

The easiest way to recycle in Long Beach is in the Purple Recycling Cart. Make sure you have one and if you don’t then click here and order one.

Things you CAN and should recycle:

Newspapers (obviously, all the LA Times, bring it on)
Cardboard and cardboard boxes (yup those moving boxes, the boxes from your shoes and gifts)
Beverage containers (plastic and glass, from your milk, soda, beer, etc)
Paint cans (they must be empty)
Plastic bags (those you get for your shopping)
Papers (phone books, catalogs, junk mail, regular mail, cereal and juice boxes, shoeboxes, paper towel and toilet paper tubes, paper egg cartons)
Plastic containers (as long as they are marked with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 on the bottom, and again they must be empty and dry)
Steel and tin Cans and also Aluminum (soda cans, soup and fruit cans, beer, beans, vegetable cans)
Glass jars (from your spaghetti sauce, soup, jelly, peanut butter, marmalade, etc)


Things you CAN NOT and shouldn't recycle:

Pizza boxes and other greasy papers
Paper napkins and towels
Cans with poisonous contents scrap metal
Insecticide and pesticide cans
Aluminum foil
Trash bags
Toys
Fast food containers
Mirrors, pottery, window glass and ceramics, light bulbs and plates

If you are not sure then dont recycle it.

Used Motor Oil and Filter Recycling

Please do recycle after every change. You have two options (don't you just love options :o)
1. Call the city and schedule a FREE pick up. The phone number is (800) RECYCL2 or you can use the online form to schedule a pick up. For other instructions please click here.
2. Drop it off at a collection center. For the collection centers please click here.

Got fluorescent light bulbs? (I bet you do!)
If it's unbroken you can drop it of at any HomeDepot Center
If it's broken (thus dangerous) then check out the HHW (Household Hazardous Waste) Collection Events.

What about recycling Phone Books (they are getting bigger and come more often every year)
If you have the local recycling service just put them in your purple (in Long Beach) cart or drop them off at these locations:

CSULB Recycling Center, 600 Atherton Blvd
Long Beach Conservation Corps, 340 Nieto
Good Earth Recycling, 2005 Bixby Road

Got a business with more than 50 phone books? Just call the Conservation Corps of Long Beach and they will pick them up for free. The phone number is 562-986-1249

If you don't have, for whatever reason, your recycleables picked up you can drop them off at these centers:
General recycling
Cell phone recycling
Battery recycling
Used oil recycling
Miscellaneus recycling

Check out Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Easy Household Guide

Questions? Feel free to e-mail me at contact@cleandom.com and make sure to visit www.cleandom.com