Plastic Bag Recycling
The Environmental Center is now accepting plastic bags for recycling.
Bags must be clean of food, garbage and any other debris to be recycled.
Plastic bags and films accepted for recycling:
- Grocery, retail & shopping bags
- Grocery bags
- Retail/shopping bags
- Produce bags
- Bread bags
- Ice bags
- Salt bags
- Wood pellet bags
- Plastic bags labeled #2 or #4
- Food & household packaging
- Cereal box liners
- Cereal bags
- Sandwich bags
- Ziploc® and other resealable food-storage bags
- Case overwrap
- Plastic overwrap from paper towels
- Plastic overwrap from toilet paper
- Plastic overwrap from other bundled paper products
- Dry-cleaning bags
- Newspaper sleeves
- Flexible food-storage bags
- Some flexible PE (polyethylene) packaging
- Shipping & e-commerce materials
- Flexible plastic shipping envelopes/mailers
- Plastic shipping pouches
- Stretchy plastic mailers
- Bubble wrap
- Air pillows
- Electronics wrap
- Some flexible packaging used to protect merchandise
- Commercial & industrial film
- Stretch film
- Pallet wrap
- Shrink wrap
- Distribution/manufacturing stretch film
- Furniture foam wrap
- Carpet overwrap
- Mattress bags
- Other qualifying flexible PE (polyethylene) film used for packaging
Plastic Bags NOT accepted for recycling:
- Frozen Food Bags
- Pet Food Bags
- Net or Mesh Produce Bags
- Chip Bags
- Prewashed Salad Bags
- Silage and Hay Bags
- Meat Wrap Packaging
- Compostable Bags (Place those at our organic recycling drop sites)
- Shiny or crinkle films like floral wraps.