Commonly acceptable paper materials include: 

• White ledger paper: computer, copy machine and typewriter paper; white ledger pads, adding machine tape
• News Quality Papers:  newspaper, phonebooks, wide-lined news print 
• Folders: manila, colored and coated folders
• Mail: letters, brochures, advertisements, magazines
• Correspondence: legal pad paper, colored paper and message sheets, self adhesive notes, index cards, fax paper
• Envelopes: with or without windows, with labels, colored and coated
• Computer paper
• Brown Papers: brown envelopes, brown grocery bags, cereal boxes, beverage cartons, grey cartons and clean pizza boxes (without grease)
• Cardboard Boxes: broken down into 3 feet by 3 feet sections

Unacceptable paper materials:

• Text Books: the glue binding contaminates the paper
• Candy Wrappers: candy and sugars contaminate the paper
• Dirty plates, cups and napkins: these items have food particles contaminating the paper
• Facial tissue and paper towels: these items are contaminated

After Rumpke Recycling collects recyclable materials, they are brought to and processed at one of our Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF). At the MRF, recyclables are separated by category and prepared for their respective markets. Materials are then shipped to manufacturers who recycle them into new products.