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City of Naples Recycling

Naples Recycles - Please Join InThe City provides once-a-week curbside recycling service to both single- and multi-family dwellings. Single-family residents are provided a blue 18-gallon recycling bin which needs to be placed within six feet of the curb on the day of collection. Recycling bins may not be placed at the curb earlier than the evening before collection, and emptied bins must be retrieved from the curb the same day they are collected.

The following items are collected for recycling:

  • Newspapers and their inserts
  • Magazines
  • Junk mail
  • Office paper
  • Phone books
  • Paper envelopes
  • Brown paper bags
  • Aluminum cans
  • Tin cans
  • Fiberboard (Cereal Boxes)
  • Cardboard (No larger than 3' x 3')
  • Glass bottles & jars (Green, brown & clear only)
  • Plastic beverage containers (labeled 1 through 7 only)

Need a Recycling Bin?

If you need a recycling bin or your bin has been damaged, you can call the Solid Waste Division at (239)213-4700. Bins are delivered each week on the day of recycling collection. Residents can always stop by and pick up a bin at our Solid Waste Operations Center, 50 Riverside Circle, just east of Goodlette at the end of Central Avenue.

Why Buy Recycled

Buying recycled materials is necessary to complete the recycling “loop.” The loop consists of using, recycling and then re-using and item. This is symbolized by the recycling logo’s arrows circling to close the loop.

What to Look For and What to Do

Look for the recycling logo on items you purchase that say the item is made with recycled content, or uses post-consumer materials. Also make sure that the item is recyclable or reusable. After you have used the item, recycle it!

Interesting Facts:

  • Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
  • You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one from raw materials.
  • Americans discard enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a large stadium every two weeks.
  • During this decade, it is estimated that Americans will throw away over 1 million tons of aluminum cans; more than 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars; 4.5 million tons off office paper and 10 million tons of newspaper… all of which can be recycled.
  • Each resident within the City of Naples generates 9.13 pounds of garbage a day, which is almost double the national average.

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