What goes in which bin?
Remember to follow the guidelines! The following are for example purposes only.
Brown Bin: Animal and Vegetable
• Animal food • Baking paper • Baked goods: bread, cake, etc. • Biodegradable bags • Biodegradable corks •
Biodegradable diapers and wipes • Candy (not gum!) • Egg shells • Eggs • Fish • Flour • Fruit • Hair • Leftovers
• Meat and bones • Milk products (without the container) • Mowed grass and leaves • Nut shells • Oil • Paper
towels • Pasta • Plants and flowers • Popcorn • Popsicle stick • Rice • Salt and sugar • Seeds and kernels •
spices • Tea bags • Toilet paper and Tissue • Used matches • Vegetables • Wooden toothpicks
Remember! The Moatza can be fined for mixing waste in the wrong bin!
Orange Bin: Wrapping and packaging, of any material,
as long as the contents have been emptied
• Aluminum packaging (not foil) • Bubble warp • Deodorant cans • Empty containers of milk products • Empty
food containers • Empty containers of milk products • Glass bottles • Match boxes • Milk bags • Milk cartons
• Packaging of cleaning products • Packaging from appliances • Plastic wrap covering packages • Packaging
from games and toy• Plastic containers• Plastic bags & packaging• Rice, sugar and flour packaging • Styrofoam
containers • Shoe boxes • Snack packaging • Shampoo/soap containers • Tin cans
Remember! Recycling saves the Moatza money, since the orange container is removed at the expense
of external recycling companies.
Green Bin: A recycling solution has not yet been found.
• Baby wipes • Band-Aids • Broken glass • Broken objects • Broken toys • Broken or old dishes • Cigarettes
• Cleaning cloths • Cleaning products • Disposable Diapers • Disposable dishes • Disposable table cloths •
Disposable unetsils • Gum • Hygiene products • Ink • Kitty Litter • Lead • Leather products • metal caps
• Shabbat candles • Soap • Sponges •Synthetic Cotton balls • Paint • Plastic cotton swabs • Rags
• Ribbon • Rugs • Wet-ones
Remember: throwing packing into the green bin takes up space and costs the Moatza money, since the green bin is
removed at the expense of the Moatza
Purple Bin for Glass
• Coffee jars • Honey/jelly jars • Olive oil bottles • Perfume bottles • Etc.
- Empty, no lids -
Blue Bin for Paper and Light Cardboard
• Egg cartons • Electrical appliance packaging • Household food packaging (pizza boxes, cereal boxes, etc.)
• Light cardboard boxes • • Newspapers • Paper Shoe boxes • Etc.
Bottle Bin
• Plastic beverage bottles • Plastic liquid-product bottles with cap • Etc.
Bottles eligible for refund under deposit legislation will be returned to points of sale or donated to charity
Cardboard Bin
• Heavy duty cardboard packaging • Paper packaging
Kindly flatten packaging before discarding
* Electronic waste, old cloths, and metals may be deposited in the recycling bins behind the moetza building * Trimmings from trees should be
deposited in special receptacles throughout the yishuv as before * Plastic bottles should be placed in the bottle recycling receptacles * Old batteries
should be brought to the schools or the "Mazkirut" * Outdated medication should be deposited in the local Kupat Holim, and not thrown away!