Jacksonville Recycles

Recycle Weekly! 
For residential customers, recycling pick up is typically on your trash collection day. The City provides a recycling container for your use. 

• Soda bottles, water bottles, cooking oil bottles, and medicine containers. 
• Laundry/dish detergent containers, plastic milk carton, shampoo & conditioner containers.
• Some Packaging Materials, Tupperware, yogurt tubs, medicine containers, and soda bottles.
• Plastic cups, disposable cutlery and cups (clear and colored), coffee cups, & some styrofoam containers.
• If it has the Number 1-7 it is recyclable

• No grocery or sandwich bags, 5-gallon buckets. Furniture and larger objects that do not fit in the City recycle container are Not acceptable
• PVC piping/tubing, plastic clam shells, vinyl siding, Styrofoam or polystyrene, plastic medical waste and plastics that have come in contact with petroleum products of hazardous waste

• Glass - Clear, Brown & Green
• Paper- Newspapers, Brochures, 
• Magazines, Catalogues (2 in. or less), White Paper, Junk Mail, Colored Paper, Phone Books, Computer Paper, 
• Paper Bags, File Folders, 
• Soft Cover Books, Cardboard Boxes, Cereal Boxes

• No napkins, paper towels, tissues, paper plates or waxed material. Please do not put anything in bags. Please keep clean and dry if possible.
• No ceramic or porcelain cups and plates, drinking glasses or stemware, heat-resistant ovenware, light bulbs, mirrors, auto glass or window panes
• No antifreeze containers, plastic bags, coat hangers, paint cans, or household items such as toasters, cooking pots or pans.

• Aluminum and steel cans  

• No pie pans or foil, cans that have contained hazardous waste (oil, insecticide, paint, etc.)