Recycling

Items That Can Be Recycled

  • Plastics: Only number 1 and number 2 and number 3 plastics such as milk jugs, shampoo bottles, water bottles, water softener salt bags, etc.
  • Glass: Only green, brown, and clear such as pickle jars, spaghetti sauce jars, beer bottles, olive jars, etc. Absolutely no window glass as it has been treated and cannot be recycled.
  • Metal: Metal, bi-metal food and aluminum cans, please rinse and make sure they are as free of food debris as possible.
  • Paper: Copy paper, school paper, newspapers, telephone books, catalogs, magazines, junk mail, corrugated cardboard and paperboard (cereal boxes) and hard backed books (do not need to remove cover).

Items We Cannot & Do Not Accept

  • Anti-freeze containers
  • Building materials of any kind
  • Cardboard pizza boxes with food debris
  • Carpet
  • Ceramics
  • Fascial tissues
  • Incandescent light bulbs
  • Motor oil containers
  • Napkins
  • Paper plates
  • Paper towels
  • Toilet paper
  • Trash/Rubbish

Recycling Procedure

All recyclables can be put in a bag or a box and dropped off at our public Recycling Sites. There is no need to separate your recyclables.

Recycling Sites

  • Middletown: Behind Municipal Building. on Locust Street.
  • Mooreland: Behind former grocery store on corner of Mills Street and Cory Street
  • New Castle: New Castle Transit Station
  • New Castle: North 12th Street (Opposite the New Castle Police Department)
  • New Lisbon: Beside Fire Department/Post Office on Wilbur Wright Road/500 South
  • Sulphur Springs: Behind Post Office
  • Mt. Summit: Back of the Mount Summit Park on the South side of lot/East of park
  • Springport: Lot across from Post Office on Main Street