Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

4. Aluminum The aluminum symbol indicates that the product or material is made of aluminum. The item can be deposited in an aluminum or mixed metal recycling container.

For all the work that residents did, less than 5% of residential waste was diverted from landfills in 1990, he said. Now, about 40% of what’s put in a mixed-waste bin is recycled, Chiappetta said.