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City of Mounds View * 5 Solid Waste and Recycling Standards Vectors Of Disease Animals including, but not limited, to insects, mice, rats, squirrels, crows, flies and other vermin that are capable of carrying, transmitting and/or infecting humans with disease. Yard Waste Garden waste, leaves, lawn cuttings, weeds, prunings, shrub and small tree branches as defined by these Standards, generated at residential or commercial properties. 3 Residential Recycling Program 3.1 All residents are required to separate and recycle all designated recyclable materials. If set out for curbside collection, recyclable materials are to be placed in the appropriate container(s) for recycling, and are not to be placed in the garbage cart. 3.2 Recyclable materials include at a minimum: A. Mixed paper: Newspapers (including inserts), magazines, phone books, catalogs, office and school papers including colored paper, junk mail, box board such as snack and cereal boxes, pop/beer/water boxes, corrugated cardboard, shredded paper in sealed paper bags, egg cartons. B. Glass: Food and beverage containers including glass jars and bottles. C. Plastic: Food and beverage containers including rigid plastic bottles, containers, tubs, lids and caps with plastics recycling symbols # 1 - #7, plastic toys, flower and shrub containers, landscape edging, laundry baskets, and plastic buckets and pails. D. Metal: Beverage, food and pet food containers including aluminum cans, tinned- steel cans, aerosol cans; and other household scrap metal and pots, pans and silverware that will fit in the recycling bin. E. Milk cartons and juice boxes. F. Other materials: Items that from time to time are designated as recyclable by the City. 3.3 Recyclable materials are to be clean, and kept as dry as practicable between collections by the resident and during collection by the recycling contractor. 3.4 The customer is responsible for the appropriate use and safety of the recycling containers, including both the interior and exterior of the containers. The customer shall rinse or wash the interior of the container as needed, and shall keep the containers free of markings or graffiti. 3.5 Recyclables and yard waste may be placed at the curb for collection. Recyclables may be set out for collection no earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the day before the collection day. Recyclables containers and yard waste containers must be removed to their storage location no later than 6:00 a.m. on the day after collection.