Curbside Recycling

If you live in an area where curbside recycling service is offered by a commercial garbage company, here's some information that may be helpful.

What you can recycle:

• Glass bottles, jars
• Tin cans (Please rinse)
• Aluminums cans
• Plastic bottles, jars, jugs (No. 1 thru 7)
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Junk Mail
• Corrugated Cardboard
• Cereal Boxes (Please remove liner)
• Phone Books

What should not be recycled:

• Waxed cartons (Milk, juice)
• Window glass, stemware
• Pizza boxes (used)
•  Food Waste (Much food waste can be composted, see compost page)
• Hazardous Waste containers (See HHW page)
• Scrap metal
• Plastic film, plastic bags
• Medical waste, used medical sharps

Those areas that offer curbside recycling through their garbage Company:

• City of Oroville, Including Kelly Ridge, South Oroville & Thermalito
• City of Gridley
• City of Biggs
• City of Chico and the greater Chico urban area as well as the Community of Durham
• Town of Paradise, including the Magalia/Upper Ridge area up to Steiffer Rd.
•  Additional areas may have curbside recycling. Contact your service provider for specific areas.

For more information on curbside recycling please contact your garbage company.

• Waste Management: 530.893.4777
• Recology of Butte-Colusa Counties: 530.533.5868 (Now serving Forest Ranch with curbside recycling)
• Northern Recycling & Waste Services: 530.876.3340

Curbside Greenwaste Recycling:

If you live in an area where curbside greenwaste recycling service is offered by a commercial garbage company, here's some information that may be helpful.

What you can recycle:

• Grass clippings, weeds
• Leaves
• Pine needles, pine cones
• Brush, small branches

What you can not recycle:

• Palm fronds
• Pampas grass
•  Anything over 3 inches in diameter
• Anything over 3 feet long
• Food waste
• Lumber

Those areas that offer curbside greenwaste recycling through their garbage company:

• City of Oroville, Including Kelly Ridge, South Oroville & Thermalito
• City of Gridley
• City of Biggs
• City of Chico and the greater Chico urban area as well as the Community of Durham
• Town of Paradise, including the Magalia/Upper Ridge area up to Steiffer Rd.

For more information on curbside greenwaste recycling please contact your garbage company

• Waste Management: 530.893.4777
• Recology Butte-Colusa Counties : 530.538.5868
• Northern Recycling & Waste Services: 530.876.3340