Happy Holidays! Thank you for your recycling efforts over the past year. Following are some guidelines for recycling during the holiday months and all year long:

Please DO include the following items in your paper recycling mix:

• corrugated cardboard boxes
• paperboard gift boxes
• greeting cards (except those with foil, metallic inks, or glitter)
• wrapping paper, gift bags, tissue wrap (except those with foil, metallic inks, or glitter)
• paper shopping bags (any type of handle is okay)
• catalogs and calendars

Please DO NOT include these items in your recycling mix:

• ribbons, bows, and tinsel (reusable from year to year)
• packing peanuts and Styrofoam (accepted for reuse at Greenfield UPS Store)
• holiday lights (WtE scrap metal recycler in Greenfield pays .20/lb. for light strings)
• plastic bags (clean, dry plastic bags marked #2 or #4 recyclable at some retailers)
• blister packaging (formed plastic package used to hold toys and electronics)
• photographs

Questions about recycling? Please contact Franklin County Solid Waste Management District at 413-772-2438; info@franklincountywastedistrict.org, or visit www.franklincountywastedistrict.org. MA Relay for the hearing impaired: 711 or 1-800-439-2370 (TTY/TDD).