Service Updates
The City of Chattanooga provides recycling collections to households and businesses. Eligible residents can be serviced by placing recyclables on the curb every other week.
Additional Information
| Acceptable Materials | |
|---|---|
| Aluminum cans | Newspaper |
| Cardboard | Plastic containers number 1&2 (Rinse food containers) |
| Computer electronics | Steel cans (Rinse food containers) |
| Glass | Cooking oil (Not at Batters Place Rd) |
| Mixed paper |
| Non-Acceptable Materials | |
|---|---|
| Clothes | Plastic bags |
| DVD players | Styrofoam |
| Non-computer electronics | Televisions |
| Fluorescent bulbs | VCRs |
| Food | Yard waste |
| Large toys |
Where do recyclables go after your recycle bin?
Recyclables are delivered to our MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) for processing. Our MRF is Westrock.
Once processed the material is sorted, baled, and shipped to our MRF (Westrock) bales it up and sends it to companies like:
- Steel: Gerdau
- Aluminum: Service Aluminum
- Fibers (paper and cardboard): WestRock, Chattanooga and Stevenson, AL
- Glass (from recycling centers only): Strategic Materials, Atlanta
- Plastic 1 and 2*: Mohawk Flooring, North Georgia, KW Plastics Troy, AL
Currently, the market is low for plastics 3-7. However, we partnered with Hefty ReNew and they turn plastics 3-7 into things such as park benches, playground equipment, flooring, cinder blocks, 2x4s for buildings, and drainage pipes.