Recycling

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The following items are accepted for recycling at Lee County’s Convenience Centers

CARDBOARD

• Put cardboard in the specially marked bins. Please breakdown and flatten all boxes.
• DO NOT include waxed or oiled cardboard, frozen food boxes, packing material (foam “peanuts”) or wrapping paper.

CO-MINGLED RECYCLABLES

The following items can be mixed together and put into the same specially marked bin:

NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINES

• Newspaper with inserts, magazines and catalogs.
• DO NOT include any plastic bags or string.

MIXED PAPER & BOOKS

• Junk Mail, cereal boxes, frozen food boxes, cardboard inserts, hardcover and paperback books, and phone books.
• DO NOT include corrugated cardboard boxes with co-mingled recyclables.

GLASS BOTTLES & JARS

• As of July 1, 2020 glass bottles and jars will not be accepted for recycling.
• Please put all glass items with your regular garbage/trash.

CANS & SMALL METAL ITEMS

• Steel & Aluminum food, beverage, paint and aerosol cans and pie tins and other small metal items. . All cans must be empty. Please rinse out residue.
• DO NOT include any propane cylinders, eating utensils, batteries, or metal/cardboard containers (juice, oil).

PLASTIC CONTAINERS

• Plastic food, beverage & soap containers, plastic flower pots, pails and other small rigid plastic items.
• Please rinse items.
• DO NOT include motor oil bottles, anti-freeze bottles, automotive fluid bottles, weed killer bottles, pesticide containers, insecticide containers or styrofoam items.

USED MOTOR OIL AND OIL FILTERS

• Used motor oil, oil filters, kerosene, crankcase draining, diesel fuel, and hydraulic and transmission fluids can be recycled at all convenience centers.
• Please put used motor oil and other fluids in sealed, leak proof containers and pour into properly marked tank.
• Anti-freeze is also accepted for recycling. Please do not mix anti-freeze with other automotive fluids.
• DO NOT mix oil with water, anti-freeze, solvents or gasoline.

BATTERIES

• Lead-acid (automotive) batteries are accepted for recycling at all convenience centers as well as local battery retailers.
• Rechargeable batteries and cell phones are accepted for recycling at the following locations:

• • Lee County Convenience Centers
  • Lee County General Services - 805 S. Fifth Street
  • Lowe's - 3015 South Horner Blvd.

ELECTRONICS

• Computers (Monitors, CPUs, Printers, Keyboards and other attachments) are accepted for recycling at all convenience centers.
• Televisions
• Cell Phones are accepted at all convenience centers for recycling.
• Ink Jet and Toner Cartridges are accepted at all convenience centers for recycling.
• Any household item that has or had an electrical cord.

WHITE GOODS & SCRAP METAL

• Household Appliances (White Goods) and other metal items are accepted for recycling at all convenience centers.