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Metal recycling

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You can recycle cans, foil, scrap metal and anything else that is all metal at home.

Anything that is 100 percent metal and meets the size and weight requirements can be recycled at home. 

Please include these in your recycling container
	Steel and aluminum cans - rinse thoroughly. Do not flatten cans. Do not place lids loose in recycling containers; place lid inside the can and crimp it shut. Loose individual lids get lost in horizontal piles of paper at recycling facilities and magnets can't pull them out. Paper labels can be removed and recycled.
	Small metal items (such as bottle caps, nails, and other metal items 2 inches or less in length) should be placed in a metal can crimped shut.
	Aluminum foil and trays - rinse thoroughly.
	Remove all non-metal materials such as wood, plastic, rubber or paper.
	Large metal items with a maximum size of 30 inches by 8 inches and weighing no more than 30 pounds.
	Empty aerosol cans. Remove the cap, but not the nozzle, don't puncture or flatten can. Cans that are still pressurized should be brought to Metro's household hazardous waste program for proper handling.