Solid Waste & Recycling

Curbside Recycling

Have you "bin" thinking about recycling?

Allied Waste provides once-a-week curbside recycling and provides each home in Sugar Land with one free 18-gallon blue bin. The curbside collection program is included as part of the City’s solid waste residential collection services. The City of Sugar Land's curbside recycling program is currently utilized by more than 60% of residents.

To have a blue recycling bin delivered to your residence, call the Public Works Department at 281-275-2450 or e-mail solidwaste@sugarlandtx.gov. It takes approximately 10 working days to have the bin delivered to your home. Please write your address on your bin, and leave the bin for the next occupant if the house is vacated.

How to Participate

To participate in the recycling program, follow these simple steps:

• Place the recyclable items listed below in your recycling bin.
• Place the bin curbside by 7:00 a.m. on your recycling collection day.
• Retrieve your bin from the curb promptly after it is emptied.

When - Recycling Collection Schededule

Please refer to the Collection Schedule for the recycling collection day for your subdivision.

What items can be placed in the bin?

Refer to the curbside recycling guidelines below.

OK in the bin

The items listed below are acceptable for recycling. It is not necessary to separate the items within the bin.

Paper

• Newspapers
• Cardboard
• Magazines
• Catalogs
• Phonebooks
• Mail
• Paperback books
• Paper bags
• Chip board
• Carrier stock

* Please secure paper in brown grocery bags or bundle and tie to avoid littering the neighborhood

Plastics

• Household product containers numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7. The numbers are located inside triangular recycling symbols located on plastic containers. Caps, lids and labels are ok, but they should be rinsed.

Metal

• Aluminum cans
• bimetal (tin) cans
• aluminum food trays/foil

It is not necessary to remove paper labels,but all metals must be free from food contamination/residue.

NOT OK in the bin

The items listed below are NOT accepted in the curbside recycling program:

• plastic grocery bags, toys, dishes, buckets
• Glass - This can be recycled at our drop off locations
• styrofoam
• pizza boxes
• plastic containers which held oil, antifreeze, pesticides or other household hazardous waste
• medical waste
• scrap metal

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