Recycling

It Works Because of You!
The residents of Chino Hills are coming through in a big way for the next generation and for the City by continuing to reduce and recycle over half of their solid waste. Recycling allows the City to comply with the State’s strict recycling laws, which require cities to reduce their waste by 50 percent or pay steep fines.  

What Goes Where?  A Sorting Guide

Your support of “Chino Hills Recycles” is a big step towards solving our waste problems now and into the future.  The Chino Hills Recycles automated waste collection and recycling program helps control the volume of waste dumped into our landfills.

Chino Hills Recycles was designed with you in mind and requires very little effort. The program uses three 100-gallon containers: 

• Gray for recyclables
• Black for yard waste
• Green for trash

To make the program a success and to avoid common sorting mistakes, like bagging yard waste, please follow these simple sorting guidelines:

GRAY Container
Recyclables

BLACK Container
Yard Waste

GREEN Container
Trash

• Aerosol cans (empty)
• Aluminum & tin cans
• Aluminum foil
• Bottle caps
• Cardboard
• Cereal Boxes (no lining)
• Computer & ledger paper
• Coupons
• Drink boxes
• Egg cartons
• Foam plates & cups
• Food & beverage cans
• Frozen food boxes
• Glass bottles/jars (lids off)
• Junk mail
• Laundry bottles
• Newspapers
• Phone Books
• Pizza Boxes  
• Plastic bags & bottles
• Wrapping paper  

• Grass & leaves (loose, not bagged)
• Pruning & weeds
• Small twigs and branches (4” or less in diameter and 2’ or less in length)
• No palms or yuccas

• Animal waste
• Bathroom waste
• Carpet & flooring
• Car parts
• Cat litter
• Cigarette butts
• Dirt/cement/rock
• Disposable diapers
• Drinking glasses
• Food waste
• Furniture
• Mirrors  
• Old clothes & shoes
• Palm fronds
• Plastic toys 
• Pool covers
• Rags & sponges
• Toothpaste tubes
• Waxed paper
• Other non-recyclable debris