Recycling

Recycling Schedule

Recycling is picked up on your trash pickup day in a different truck.

Items We Recycle and Instructions

• Paper: newspaper, magazines, phonebooks and junk mail.
• Plastics 1 through 7 (rinse and remove lids).
• Aluminum, tin and metal containers (rinse).
• Cardboard.

Please do not put anything in your recycling container that is not listed above.
We do not put your recyclables in the trash.

>> See a complete list of acceptable & unacceptable items <<

As of July 1, 2016, recycling loads with glass in them will be rejected by WestRock and sent to the landfill.

Customers can take glass to WestRock Atlanta West on County Services Parkway for recycling, but glass cannot be delivered there with our other recyclables because glass broken in truck compactors is difficult to separate and can damage WestRock’s separation equipment.

In the past, the recycling center paid as much as $18/ton for recyclable materials; now WestRock charges us $32.50/ton tipping fees. The $6 monthly charge for recycling helps us recover some, but not all, of our costs for providing the service.

Demand for recyclables has diminished. As WestRock explains: “The industry has seen declines of more than 20% in fiber (paper/cardboard) value, while decreases in petroleum prices are driving plastics prices down from 30% to 50% on some grades of plastics.”