TossRules

Can you throw it away? Depends on your state.

Pick the thing you are holding

• Gasoline

  How do you dispose of old gasoline?

• Paint

  Can you throw away paint?

• Propane tanks

  How do you dispose of a propane tank?

• Styrofoam (EPS foam)

  Can you recycle styrofoam?

• Microwaves

  Can you throw away a microwave?

• TVs & e-waste

  How do you dispose of a TV?

• Batteries

  Can you throw away batteries?

• Bubble wrap & film plastic

  Is bubble wrap recyclable?

• Pizza boxes

  Can you recycle pizza boxes?

• Aerosol cans

  Can you recycle aerosol cans?

• Tires

  How do you dispose of old tires?

• Mattresses

  How do you dispose of a mattress?

You are holding the thing — half a can of old gasoline, a dead microwave, a stack of foam from a delivery — and you want to know whether it goes in the bin. There is no national answer. Some states ban an item from the landfill outright, some run a take-back program for it, and plenty have no statewide rule at all and leave it to your county. This site keeps those apart. Every item gets the federal baseline, the one thing never to do, and a row for each of the 50 states naming that state's own rule, the agency page it was read from, the date it was checked, and where that state says to take it.

Where a state has no rule, the page says so plainly and links the state's finder — it never borrows an answer from the state next door.