Phoenix Recycles participants can recycle paper, plastic, metal and glass each week in their blue container. With its new 27th Avenue Solid Waste Management Facility, Phoenix residents divert nearly 20 percent of garbage from the landfill. Using blue barrels is vital to controlling rising solid waste costs for all residents as landfills in or near Phoenix are closed and garbage is transferred to landfills many miles outside the metro Phoenix area limits. Phoenix Recycles is available in all Phoenix neighborhoods. Recyclables in blue Phoenix Recycles containers should be unbagged.
Phoenix also promotes mulching and composting to keep yard wastes from filling our landfills.
Residents can purchase damaged garbage cans that have been transformed into composters to create soil for your garden. These hazardous materials can be taken to monthly BOPA collection events. Each event is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Solid Waste Education Office coordinates school shows staring mascots Recyclesaurus and Captain Toxic. A free half-hour program focuses on how to participate in Phoenix Recycles and household hazardous waste collection events. Tours are offered at the 27th Avenue Solid Waste Management Facility and its recycling processing area.