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PHOENIX RECYCLES
Recycling
Recycling
General Recycling Information
More than half of what we throw away can be recycled. Recycling helps conserve landfill space, preserve natural resources and control rising waste disposal costs.
Homeowners that receive city garbage collection can participate in the citywide "Phoenix Recycles" program. Each home can have two storage containers - one black or green container for bagged and tied garbage and the other, a blue container, for recycling (to request additional containers, contact Solid Waste Customer Service at 602-262-7251).
Blue recycling containers are collected each week. If you are new to your home, please consult the literature delivered with your container for the correct day of collection for your home, or watch when your neighbors place their containers out or call Solid Waste Customer Service at 602-262-7251 to verify your service day. Containers may be placed at the curb for service after 6:00 PM on the day preceding collection, but must be out by 5:30 AM the day of collection to ensure service. Containers should be removed prior to 5:30 AM of the day after collection. Store containers between collection days on your property so as to not interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
Used telephone books from Phoenix Recycles participants may be placed in your blue Phoenix Recycles container. For more information, call 602-262-7251. For information on recycling telephone books at commercial locations such as work or school, call 602-207-9900 and press BOOK(2665).
PLASTICS
Bottles and containers with recycling symbol and numbered codes 1 or 2 on side or bottom of container. Examples of codes:
PLASTIC DON'TS
No plastic bags of any kind with or without a recycling symbol.
No pool chemical/household hazardous waste containers.
No foam peanuts or bubble wrap. To find out where to drop-off used packing peanuts for reuse click here.
No plastics with code symbols of:
#3 V=vinyl such as candy containers, PVC piping or shoes
#4 LDPE = low density polyethylene such as plastic lids or tubs like those for whipped cream or butter
#5 PP = polypropylene such as plastic utensils and straws
#7 Other- such as toys, envelopes, candy wrappers, etc.
These items can damage the sorting equipment, be harmful to workers in the sorting facility or are too small to be sorted (foam peanuts can be reused for shipping purposes, click here to find out more. ), or make the sorting process inefficient.
GLASS
Food or beverage glass bottles and jars only. Please remove lids (put plastic lids in black or green barrel and metal lids in blue recycling containers).
NO WINDOW PANES, MIRRORS, CERAMICS, DISHES, TELEVISIONS, OR LIGHT BULBS.
These items are made with treated glass, have hazardous materials in them (TVs) or are not glass at all and cannot be recycled in Phoenix Recycles.
Office paper - staples do not need to be removed
Newspapers - remove plastic bags and rubber bands
Magazines, catalogs, comic books
Telephone books
Cardboard - flatten boxes to fit in blue barrel loosely. If you have a large number of boxes, flatten and stack them and call Solid Waste Customer Service at 602-262-7251 to arrange a special collection. Or email your request.
Chipboard - cereal, cookie, tissue, gift boxes. (Remove and place cereal, cookie or cracker inserts bagged and tied in your green or black barrel.
Milk/juice cartons
Juice boxes
Junk mail - includes non self-sealing envelopes. Remove plastic credit cards or bags. Previous literature may say no plastic windowed envelopes, however improvements at paper recycling plants allow for these windows to be strained out of the paper pulp mix. It is still good recycling habit to tear the window out, however it is not necessary.NO HARDBACK OR PAPERBACK BOOKS, SELF SEALING ENVELOPES, PHOTOGRAPHS, EMBOSSED CARDS OR WRAPPING PAPER, MYLAR BALLOONS, NEWSPAPER PLASTIC BAGS, RUBBER BANDS OR BLUEPRINTS.
All of these items cannot be recycled with regular paper. They cause de-inking and pulping processes to be disrupted and reduce the value of acceptable paper items.NO SIX/TWELVE PACK BEVERAGE CARRIERS, DRY DETERGENT/BAR SOAP BOXES, AND MOST FROZEN FOOD BOXES.
These items are made from a type of paper call "wet-strength chipboard". Within the paper material matrix is a barrier that keeps moisture from getting out (like a frozen orange juice container) or from getting in (like the dry detergent box). Beverage makers use these to prevent the carriers from falling apart if the cans or bottles get wet. Since wet-strength repels water, the recycling of these paper products is very inefficient, if not impossible. Paper recyclers will downgrade the value of the recovered paper if too much wet-strength material is found in the bales of cardboard or chipboard. If the paper container you're looking at has a corrugated (crinkly paper) layer between the outer layers, this material is corrugated cardboard and can be placed in the recycling container.NO SHREDDED PAPER
Shredded paper is not accepted in the Phoenix Recycles program. The paper can damage sorting machinery and is not easily sorted from other materials. In addition, residents often shred more that just paper including non-recyclable materials such as photographs, credit cards and stickers. Shredded paper should be bag and tied and placed in your green/black garbage container. If possible, shredded paper can be composted or used as packing materials instead of foam peanuts.
Aluminum cans
Clean pie plates and foil
Steel cans - soup, vegetable, pet food ; place lids inside can
Metal hangers - bound with twist tie
Scrap metal under 25 pounds including small appliances
Aerosol cans - no spray paint, pesticides, oven cleanersTo recycle large metal appliances or computers, please use our special Appliance/Electronics collection and recycling program. Call Solid Waste Customer Service at 602-262-7251 for more information.
IMPORTANT RECYCLING GUIDELINES:
- All recyclable material must be relatively clean, dry, empty and uncrushed. No need to wash recyclables.
- Do not bag, box or tie recyclables.
- No grass, yard or food waste.
- Lids are okay on most containers. Due to magnet strength for sorting iron metal objects, it is important to remove metal lids from glass jars and place both in your blue Phoenix Recycles container.
Click here to download a detailed list of material accepted and not accepted in the "Phoenix Recycles" program. To view this list you will need to have Adobe's acrobat reader installed. If you do not have it, you may download Adobe Acrobat Reader here. Click on the previous link to download the reader and follow the instructions for installation. For more information, call 602-262-7251 or send e-mail.
PLEASE NOTE!
The information you download above is occasionally revised to reflect improvements. If you have not updated your list in a few years, following are the improvements made to the program over the last few years: the inclusion of stiff foam blocks, the acceptance of plastic windowed envelopes, the okay to leave lids on plastic containers and the addition of used telephone books .
Recycling Drop-off sites
" Phoenix Recycles" curbside recycling is available to all neighborhoods serviced by the city of Phoenix. Recycling drop-off sites are designed to provide a way to for those not serviced by the City of Phoenix. City of Phoenix residents may drop off commingled recyclable material at any of the blue roll-off bin locations listed below:
Name Address/Location Hudson-Baylor West 1919 E. University Drive North Gateway Transfer Station and Materials Recovery Facility 30205 N Black Canyon Highway (east frontage road, 4 miles north of Happy Valley Road) 27th Avenue Solid
Waste Management Facility3060 South 27th Avenue
(27th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road)Questions? Call 602-262-7251 or send e-mail.
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Meeting/Tour Information
Educational opportunities for City of Phoenix residents regarding recycling are provided by Recycling Contracts and Education staff. If you would like to reserve a free speaker on recycling or other solid waste issues for your own group or if you would like to schedule a tour of the 27th Ave. Solid Waste Management Facility and its recycling Material Recovery Facility, call 602-495-5362 or e-mail. Meetings / tours last approximately one hour.For information on a presentation or appearance, call 602-495-5362 or e-mail.
Why do we recycle?
Click here to visit the section on "Why do we recycle?" This section includes historical and statistical information including information on the background studies when "Phoenix Recycles" was designed.
Recycle a Bicycle
The City of Phoenix no longer directly coordinates a recycled bicycle program. Arrangements have been made by the Human Services Department to have the St. Vincent DePaul Society at 420 West Watkins accept bicycles for refurbishing. Individuals are learning how to fix bikes, which are then given to clients that need transportation to and from work. Please give St Vincent DePaul a call at 602-261-6854 for more information.Metal bicycle parts and frames are accepted in blue Phoenix Recycles containers. However, the pieces need to be small enough so that container lids can close.
Questions? Call 602-262-7251 or send e-mail.
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Other Solid Waste Field Services program information
For more information on recycling and other solid waste field services programs click here, call Solid Waste Customer Service at 602-262-7251, or e-mail.Return to top of Phoenix Recycles
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