Curbside Recycling

Bi-weekly Citywide Curbside Recycling

All residential solid waste customers have access to recycling at the curb. The city provides residents with a 65-gallon blue recycling cart.  Recylables are collected every other week using a red/blue route system. The cost of curbside recycling is included in the base rate, along with weekly trash and yard waste collection and access to the city's year-round household hazardous waste facility.

Additional information and Frequently Asked Questions about curbside recycling is available here.

• Fact Sheet (printable)
• Frequently Asked Questions (printable)
• Collection Schedule
• Automated Recycling Reminders (through your online account)

How to Recycle

Place your recycling items commingled loosely in your city-provided blue recycling cart.  Set your cart at the curb by 8 am on your scheduled trash collection day.  Recyclables will be picked up separate from your household's trash, by a recycling truck.

How to prepare materials for recycling:

• There's no need to sort.
• Please use the bin's lid on windy or rainy days to keep materials dry and avoid littering the neighborhood. 
• Mixed paper should be dry.  Please place in bin loosely, tied in bundles, or bagged in brown paper sacks. 
• All containers should be rinsed.
• Labels are okay.
• Please remove caps and rings from plastic containers
• Place the lid inside tin (steel) cans and pinch closed.
• Flatten or cut cardboard to pieces no larger than 4' x 4' and place under the recycling bin.
• Remove waxed paper liners or packing materials from cardboard/chipboard prior to recycling.

For the safety of our employees, any materials set out that do not meet these guidelines will not be collected.

YES - Items Accepted for Recycling

Mixed Paper, Plastic (#1-7, except styrofoam), Cardboard, Chipboard, Aluminum/Tin Cans, and Telephone Books

NO - Unacceptable Items

** PLEASE NOTE: Glass will not be accepted.  Glass can be taken to the downtown recycling drop-off.