Waste Sorting Help Sheet

Waste Sorting Help Sheet – Seattle Public Schools

All food scraps, including: fruits, vegetables, coffee grounds & filters, tea bags, shells & bones, pasta & rice, eggshells, nutshells, bread & grains, meat, fish & dairy.
Food-soiled paper, including: uncoated (not shiny) paper bags, paper towels & napkins, greasy pizza boxes, uncoated (not shiny) food-soiled uncoated paper plates and trays, & shredded paper.
Paper lined with compostable material (ex: brown paper boats that say “compostable” on the bottom) and waxed paper
Plant and yard waste, including: flowers and houseplants, leaves, branches and grass clippings.

Paper – Homework, drawings (once both sides are used is best,) colored art paper
Cardboard
BIG Lids and caps larger than three inches in diameter
Empty juice boxes, milk cartons, plastic bottles, coffee cups and lids (larger than 3”)
Empty plastic cereal bowls and juice cups with lid removed
“Spoon clean” plastic yogurt and applesauce cups with lid removed

SMALL plastic caps and lids less than three inches in diameter
Plastic straws, forks, spoons, knives
Pencils, pens, glue sticks, erasers, and crayons (or you can re-melt broken crayons into new ones to use again)
Foil juice containers (ex: Capri Sun)
Plastic film (ex: Saran Wrap, film lid on single-use cereal bowls)
Chip bags, ziplock bags, candy wrappers, carrot/apple/roll bags
Liquid – please pour out all liquid into a sink or basin at the sort line