Austin Resource Recovery provides curbside collection of recycling to single-family households up to four-plexes in Austin. Place mixed paper, plastic, metal and glass directly in your blue recycling cart – no sorting required!
Recycle right
Austin Resource Recovery is asking residents and neighbors to keep “tanglers” out of their blue recycling carts. Tanglers are items such as plastic bags, trash bags, garden hoses, rope, strings of lights and other long, flexible materials which get tangled in the gears of the recycling sorting facilities, jamming the machinery and disrupting operations. Help us Untangle ATX by keeping these items out of your blue recycling carts.
Keep these tanglers out of the blue recycling cart
Plastic bags, trash bags, plastic film and wrap
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What do I do with it? Some local retailers and stores accept these items for recycling— check our What Do I Do With tool to find a location near you. |
Garden hoses
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What do I do with it? Visit the Austin Reuse Directory to find a local organization that will accept these items for reuse or recycling, or place in your trash cart.
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Strings of lights and electrical cords
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What do I do with it? Drop these items off at the Recycle & Reuse Drop-off Center to be recycled or disposed of safely.
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Clothing and textiles
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What do I do with it? Visit the Austin Reuse Directory to find a local organization that will accept these items for reuse or schedule free clothing and housewares curbside collection.
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Rope
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What do I do with it? Visit the Austin Reuse Directory to find a local organization that will accept these items for reuse. |
Place these items in the blue recycling cart
Paper
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Boxboard and cardboard
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Metals
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Glass
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Hard plastics
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Keep these items out of your blue recycling cart
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Collection guidelines
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Place your recycling cart at the curb by 5:30 a.m. on your collection day. (The set-out time has been shifted to an hour earlier to minimize workers' exposure to the extreme summer heat.)
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Place trash, recyclables and compost five feet apart to allow our automated trucks to collect materials safely and efficiently.
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Do not bag recycling.
- Did we miss your cart? Call Austin Resource Recovery at 3-1-1 or send us an e-mail within two days of the missed collection. We will come by to pick up the missed material as soon as possible.
- Extra recycling is collected at no extra charge. Extra recycling that does not fit into your blue cart with the lid closed should be placed next to your cart in a reusable container or a cardboard box no larger than your cart (use the lid of your recycling cart as a size guide). If you would like to request an additional blue cart, free of charge, call 512-494-9400.
