Recycling
New Residential Curbside Collection Provider
Started August 1, 2024
The Solid Waste Division provides sustainable solid waste management services, including weekly curbside collections for over 100,000 residential units, ensuring high-quality and timely service to the community.
Service Provider
New Service Provider started on August 1, 2024
FCC Environmental Services is the sole provider for residential curbside collection services in St. Johns County (starting August 1, 2024).
To schedule an appliance collection or request a recycling cart, contact the Solid Waste Division at (904) 827-6980 or email SolidWaste@sjcfl.us.
Schedules
To find your curbside collection schedule for Garbage, Recycling, and Yard Debris services, use Recycle Coach, or contact the Solid Waste Division.
Holidays
There will be no garbage, yard waste, or recycling collections on the holidays below:
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
- New Year’s Day
Cardboard Recycling Drop-Off
Cardboard boxes can be flattened and taken to the Cardboard Recycling Drop-Off Center, at either Transfer Stations, free of charge. No other recyclables will be accepted at the Drop-Off Center at this time.
Recycle Coach
Download the App Today!
We have teamed up with Recycle Coach to help educate our residents on proper recycling! By downloading the Recycle Coach app, you will be able to get your curbside collection schedule, sign up for alerts, and quickly learn how to properly dispose of different waste materials.
Our Recycle Coach app has image recognition software. Just take a picture of an item and it will tell you if it is recyclable!
Guidelines
- Garbage, recycling, and yard debris must be separated by residents and placed curbside by 6 a.m. on the scheduled collection day.
- Place recyclable materials loose (unbagged) in your recycling cart provided by your service provider.
- Place the cart no more than three (3) feet from the curb and all obstructions to ensure the automated arm can safely grasp the cart.
- All items must fit into the cart to be collected. The service provider’s collection crews do not pick up any material that is not in a recycling cart.
- Do not overfill your recycling cart. This reduces the amount of recyclables that may fall out of the cart and onto the right-of-way.
- Labels and plastic caps do not have to be removed prior to recycling. Rinse as necessary and make sure everything is empty, clean, and dry.
- Recycling carts placed in front of vacant lots, lands, or properties will not be collected.
- Refrain from placing your cart near parked cars, mailboxes, light poles or other objects as the truck will not have sufficient clearance to lift and empty the cart.
Do NOT recycle the following:
- Recycling Equipment Tanglers: No plastic bags or film wrapping, holiday lights, wire, electronics, or bubble wrap.
- Non-Container Plastics: No toys, hangers, packing peanuts, garden hoses, etc.
- Contaminants: No food waste, garbage, Styrofoam®, diapers, mirrors, window panes, ceramic containers, yard waste, tires, or any item not listed on the acceptable recycling list.
Do you wishcycle?
Tossing questionable items in the recycling bin, hoping they can somehow be recycled, does more harm than good. Don’t be a wish-cycler. Place only the accepted items in your cart! RECYCLE RIGHT!…it’s kind of a big deal.
Take Five!
Place only the five categories of items listed below, loose (unbagged) in your recycling cart.
- Paper & Cardboard
Newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, office paper, cereal/food boxes, and flattened cardboard. - Plastic Containers
Clean and empty food and beverage containers, soap bottles and jugs, empty pill bottles. Labels do not need to be removed. NO Styrofoam®, NO plastic bags. - Cartons
Clean and empty milk, juice, soup, broth, and wine cartons. - Glass
Bottles & jars (clear, green, & brown) only. No windows or ceramic containers. - Metal
Aluminum & metal food and beverage containers only (clean and empty).
Helpful Guides & Resources
Request an Additional Cart or Appliance Pick Up
For an additional cart or to recycle appliances curbside contact your service provider.