- Glass bottles & jars (all colors)
- Steel cans
- Aluminum cans and cups
- Plastic bottles (empty, crush, reattach lid): Bottles and jugs that have a small mouth and wider base, such as milk jugs, soda bottles, laundry detergent bottles, water bottles, shampoo bottles and contact solution bottles
- Plastic tubs*: Containers for butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, Jello, and fruit slices would fall into the tub category. Plastic lids should be reattached prior to recycling, film or foil lids should be discarded
- Plastic Cups* (remove/discard straw, reattach lid): Fast food beverage cups – colored party cups are not accepted
- Plastic Clamshell Containers**: Packaging food, retail products, groceries, and takeout items
- Paper: newspaper, magazines, cardboard, mixed office paper and envelopes, paperboard (cereal boxes), pizza boxes free of food debris and grease, telephone books, and catalogs
- Paper cups (remove/discard lids, straws, and stoppers): Fast food beverage cups, coffee cups, Dixie cups
- Cartons (remove plastic caps and straws): Food and beverage cartons, such as milk, juice, soup, wine, broth, and other cartons
*No cups or tubs are currently accepted in Central Kentucky, where Rumpke partners with Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to process recyclables. See more on plastic recycling.
**Currently, clamshell recycling is only available to customers serviced by the Rumpke Recycling & Resource Center. This includes customers within Greater Columbus and Central Ohio, Greater Cleveland. northern Ohio, southeast Ohio and West Virginia. Clamshell recycling is not yet available in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois or Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio. As Rumpke continues to upgrade its other recycling facilities with new technology and end markets continue to expand, you can expect similar recycling options to become available in other areas as well.