The following materials are NOT recyclable and should not be placed in the blue dumpsters or large green drop off containers throughout Lincoln County:

• Broken Plastic Furniture or discard wood/cloth covered furniture**

• Carpet

• Clothing. (take to Thrift Stores)

• Dead animals

• Electronic equipment **

• Food items of any kind. Fast food containers with food residue.

• Grocery or discount store plastic sacks

• Hard plastic (except for clean 5 gallon buckets), garden hoses

• Junk mail

• Metal coat hangers, fencing material, or barbed wire

• Glass jars and bottles

• Lumber and other construction waste**

• Plastic wrapping or bubble wrap

• Plastic containers with oil, grease, butter, yogurt or margarine residue

• Sacks of garbage

• Sacked pine needles or other yard waste (call your municipal office or the Authority office for proper disposal)

• Small consumer appliances **

• Styrofoam of any kind or shape

• Tires, rubber swimming pools and other rubber items

• Wine or cooking oil boxes with plastic liners.

• Empty steel or tin cans from canned fruits and vegetables.

**may be discarded or recycled at the Solid Waste Authority yard, 26590 Hwy 70, in Ruidoso Downs.

If you have a question, contact the Authority office at 378-4697 or 1-877-548-8772.

Thank you for your cooperation!