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Milk Cartons & Aseptic Containers

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Regular gable-top milk cartons Milk cartons should be thrown out in your regular trash. They can no longer be composted, as we cannot determine if the “wax-like” coating is indeed wax or a form of plastic. Aseptic milk or soup containers Milk or soup in aseptic containers (brick-shaped, like Parmalat brand milk, or soup broth) […]

Food Scraps

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Food and food scraps can be composted, FREE of charge, in the Windham Solid Waste Management District’s organics composting program, (Please see Project C.O.W. for more information) or your curbside compost container (if applicable). Otherwise, please dispose of your food and food scraps in your garbage.

Carbon Monoxide Detector

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Carbon Monoxide Detectors are NOT recyclable.  Please dispose of your Carbon Monoxide Detectors in the garbage. Carbon Monoxide Detectors do not contain hazardous materials.

Butane Lighters

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Butane lighters are NOT recyclable.  Please dispose of your butane lighters in the garbage. Empty butane fuel (refill cans) are also trash. Butane fuel refills with product still left in them are hazardous and should be disposed of at our Household Hazardous Waste Depot.