Separating Your Trash
Each resident is provided a 95-gallon black container for trash, a 96-gallon green container for greenwaste, and a 60-gallon blue container for recyclables.
Please do not put hot ashes, hot cinders, smoldering coals, or burning materials in the container.
Listed below are the items that can and cannot be placed in each container.
95-gallon (or 65-gallon) black trash container
All trash must fit inside of the container. It is acceptable to place trash in plastic trash bags before placing them in your trash container. However, extra bags, boxes or cans of trash left at the curb will not be accepted.
The following items can be placed in your black trash container:
| Food waste | Palm fronds and trimmings | Clothing |
| Animal waste | Cactus or succulents | Plastic bags |
| Kitty litter | Disposable diapers | Soiled paper products |
The following items cannot be placed in your black trash container:
| Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) | Dead animals | Electronic Waste (E-Waste) |
| Dirt, rock, or concrete | Greenwaste | Universal Waste (U-Waste) |
60-gallon blue recycling container
All recycling must fit inside of the container. Extra bags, boxes or cans of recycling left at the curb will not be accepted.
Food containers do not need to be rinsed out before placing them in your recycling container. If there is a good amount of food left in the container the majority of it should be disposed of before placing it in your recycling container.
The following items can be placed in your blue recycling container:
| Aluminum cans | Egg cartons | Newspapers |
| Antifreeze bottles | Envelopes | Pet food cans |
| Assorted food jars | Food/waxy boxes | Plastics #1 - #7 |
| Baby food jars | Food and juice cans | Plastic laundry jugs |
| Beer bottles | Jam and jelly jars | Plastic soda bottles |
| Brochures | Juice bottles | Shampoo and lotion bottles |
| Cardboard | Juice boxes | Soda/beer cartons |
| Catalogs | Junk mail | Styrofoam |
| Cereal boxes | Metal coat hangers | Telephone books |
| Computer paper | Magazines | Tissue boxes |
| Condiment jars | Mixed paper | Wine and liquor bottles |
| Crayon drawings | Milk cartons | Wrapping paper |
The following items cannot be placed in your blue recycling container. These items are considered Trash, Household Hazardous Waste (HHW), Electronic Waste (E-Waste) or Universal Waste (U-Waste).
| Trash | HHW | E-Waste | U-Waste |
| Bicycles | Auto parts | Cell phones | Common batteries |
| Ceramic dishes/cups | Paint | Computer monitors | Light bulbs |
| Clothing | Household cleaners | CPUs | Mercury thermometers |
| Drinking glasses | Anti-freeze | Fax machines | |
| Furniture and carpet | Fertilizer | Microwave ovens | |
| Garden hoses | Pesticide | PDAs | |
| Metal lawn furniture | Weed killer | Printers | |
| Mirrors | Turpentine | Scanners | |
| Plastic grocery bags | Paint thinner | Stereos and TVs | |
| Plastic lawn furniture | Pool chemicals | VCRs/DVD Players | |
| Plastic margarine tubs | |||
| Plastic pools and toys | |||
| Safety glass | |||
| Soiled pizza boxes | |||
| Used aluminum foil | |||
| Used diapers | |||
| Used paper plates | |||
| Used tissue products | |||
| Wax paper | |||
| Windows |
96-gallon greenwaste container
The following items can be placed in your greenwaste container:
| Grass clippings | Tree trimmings | Shrub trimmings |
| Leaves | Brush | Weeds |
The following items cannot be placed in your greenwaste container:
| Dirt | Rock | Cactus |
| Concrete | Palm fronds | Animal waste |
| Food waste |