Recycling Locations
None of these locations accept large quantities or materials from business or manufacturing. If you have commercial volumes of waste you would like to recycle, call 520-375-7830.
Recycling services are provided at no cost to citizens of Santa Cruz County.
Items Accepted at All Sites
These can be placed in the co-mingled Green or Blue Recycling Containers:
- Aluminum cans and foil
- Cardboard
- Newspaper, magazines, catalogues (no phone books)
- Plastic-such as soda and shampoo bottles, milk / water jugs
- No tubs, pails or other plastic
- Steel / tin cans-such as canned food cans
Corrugated Cardboard
- Brown paper grocery bags can be recycled with corrugated cardboard
- No wax coating (produce boxes)
- Please empty, flatten and cut to 3’ by 3’ (no Styrofoam or bubble wrap)
- Pressed board (cereal, shoe or 12-pak containers)
Electronic Components
Electronic components contain hazardous material, such as lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. The facilities accept:
- Cell phones
- Computers
- Keyboards
- Printers
- TV’s
Items Accepted by Rio Rico & Sonoita Sites
- Antifreeze and motor oil
- Place in waste oil container
- Batteries
- Computers, printers, electronic equipment, and circuit boards - stacked on pallets
- Household chemicals such as chlorine, paint thinner and other solvents
- Spray and liquid paint
- Tires
- Residential only, first 5 tires are free without rims
- Tires without rims $150 / ton
- All tires with rims are $5 each
The following list of items are no longer being recycled at any of the Solid Waste Sites
- Glass
- Office paper
- Junk mail and envelopes
- Mixed paper, light colored paper
- White office paper, copy or computer paper
- No bright colored papers and envelopes
- No goldenrod (bright yellow receipt paper)
- No glue or adhesive paper
- Newspaper
- Magazines