Recycling Tips

Recycle Butte

Recycling is more than extending the life of our landfill. It is about making the best use of the resources we have available and preserving those resources for future generations. It is about conserving water, energy, land and materials. It is about creating a sustainable community that values what we have and what future generations deserve to have. When you bury something in the landfill, it's like burying the energy and water it took to create that product.

Recycling Tips

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
Waxed cartons (Milk, juice)

What should not be recycled:

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