What Can I Recycle?
METAL CANS
- Includes aluminum and tin
cans
- Rinse
- NO paint
cans
GLASS
- Includes clear and colored
glass food and drink containers
- Remove lids and
rinse
- Only paper labels may
remain
- No broken glass, pane glass or
light bulbs
#1 and #7 PLASTIC
CONTAINERS
- Includes milk jugs, detergent
bottles, shampoo bottles yogurt containers and clear liter soda bottles
- Remove caps and rinse
bottles
RIGID PLASTICS
- Includes broken blue bins, old laundry baskets, flower pots, buckets, toys and broken up plastic furniture
- All items must be no larger than 2 feet by 3 feet
- All items must be clean with no residue of any type (paint, oil, tar, dirt) etc.
NEWSPAPER AND
PHONE BOOKS
- Please do not bag
or tie newspaper
- No magazines or
other paper (place with mixed paper)
- Please tear off
covers of phone books
MIXED
PAPER
- Includes white and
colored ledger paper, paperboard (cereal boxes, shoe boxes, paper egg cartons,
paper tubes etc.), white and manila envelopes with or without windows, junk
mail, paperback books, folders, index cards, greeting cards,
magazines, brown paper bags
- No waxed or
foil-lined paper, hardcover books or wrapping paper.
CARDBOARD
- Includes corrugated
cardboard
- Remove any
packaging
Other items
accepted are the following:
- White goods (stoves,
refrigerators) *
- Leaves, grass and
brush
- Waste oil
- Oil filters
- Lead acid batteries
- Fluorescent lamps
- Clothing
- Scrap metal *
- Nickel cadmium
batteries
- Mercury containing
devices
- Empty toner
cartridges
- Used cell phones
- Antifreeze
- Surplus paint
- Propane tanks *
- Computer monitors and
televisions*
- Aerosol containers
* Not available on
Saturdays
How Do I
Recycle?
The Recycling
Center is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm and Saturday from
8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Bring your recyclables to 1103 Shawmut Avenue (see map). Be
prepared to show your identification ( which should include your current
address)
Where can I
call if I have a question?
Residents can call
the following phone numbers if they have a question or a problem:
- (508) 979-1493,
Marissa Perez-Dormitzer, New Bedford Recycling Coordinator
- (508) 991-6156,
Shawmut Avenue Transfer Station
- (508) 763-5924,
Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse Management District
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