City of Port St. Lucie

Recycling Services:

Recycling carts are picked up once a week in either a 35 gallon cart or a 65 gallon cart. Carts are to be at the curb no later than 7:00 am on your service day. Have the opening of the cart facing the road and at least 3 feet from your mail box or your garbage can. The materials acceptable in your single stream recycling cart are:

• Mixed paper (phone books, magazines, office paper, file folders, brown paper bags, catalogs, paper boxes.
• Cardboard boxes (flattened to fit into the cart)
• Aluminum cans
• Aluminum foil and pie plates
• Metal cans, pots and pans
• Plastics (water bottles, soda bottles, milk jugs, laundry jugs, plastic containers
• Glass bottles and jars
• Empty aerosol cans

Unexceptable Items:

• Hoses
• Any kind of propane tank
• Construction waste
• Plastic bags, bubble wrap, shrink wrap
• Plants, tires, styrofoam, clothing, hazardous waste, electronics, toys