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We Want to Help You Recycle Right!

Using the Garbage, Recycling and Organics carts correctly can be tricky…but it’s worth the effort! We want to do our best to help you—that’s why the Livermore Recycles team goes out into the neighborhoods twice a year to peek into residents’ carts. Seeing what is (and is not) getting sorted correctly helps us decide where we need to focus our outreach and education efforts.

Let’s look at what does go in the Green Organics Cart:

You Can Help Binny Make Compost Magic!
We have been seeing too many food scraps and food-soiled paper ending up in the Garbage…that’s not good. Food scraps placed into Binny the Green Organics Cart are magically transformed into rich compost for our farms, parks and gardens…but scraps in the Garbage go to landfill, where they stay for years and give off harmful greenhouse gases.

It’s pretty simple: Keep ALL food scraps  – raw, cooked, and rotten – out of the Garbage and feed them to Binny. Before feeding the food scraps to Binny, be sure to remove any plastic packaging and throw that in the Garbage.

Place all food scraps and food-soiled paper in the Green Organics cart, not the Garbage cart, so that Binny can work his magic!

Raw, cooked and rotten—all food scraps must go in the Green Organics cart. It’s also the law in California.

Questions about what goes where?
Check out:
What Goes in the Garbage
What Goes in Recycling
What Goes in Organics
Thanks, Livermore!