City of Tampa Department of Solid Waste, Recycling Division

The Recycling Division is responsible for implementing, monitoring and administering the Department’s comprehensive recycling program. This includes curbside and multi-family recycling, yard waste recycling, office paper and commercial recycling programs.

NEW! Curbside Program Expansion

As of July 1, 2008,  you may place phone books, paperback books, junk mail, cereal boxes, 6-pack soda boxes, office paper and cardboard in your blue recycling bins in addition to the already accepted materials: 

• Magazines
• Newspapers & inserts
• Catalogs
• Plastic bottles (numbers 1 and 2 only)
• Aluminum and steel cans (including empty aerosol cans)
• Gable-top beverage containers (juice & milk containers)
• Glass bottles & jars (all colors)

Cardboard: Please make sure that cardboard is flattened and cut down to fit in blue bins (a maximum of 3 ft squares). If you have large quantities of cardboard, it may be dropped off, at no charge, at the Manhattan Brush Site, 7215 S. Manhattan Ave., or the McKay Bay Refuse-To-Energy Facility at 107 N. 30th St.

Recycle your old blue bins: Leave your cracked, broken blue bins curbside on your pick up day for collection (please leave a note on the bin stating that you would like it replaced). The old bins will be taken to the processing facility and recycled.

In-School and Public Education Program

America Recycles Day Poetry & T-Shirt Design Project

Recycling Fun Facts

• We throw away enough aluminum each year that we could rebuild our entire commercial air fleet every 3 months.
• We throw away enough office paper each year to build a 12 foot high wall of paper from New York to Los Angeles.
• We throw away enough plastic soda bottles each year to circle the earth four times.
• We throw away enough motor oil each year to fill 120 supertankers.
• We throw away 20 million tons of grass clippings, dead leaves and branches a year.
• An average size family's yard waste can make about 300-400 pounds of finished compost (humus) a year!

Robert Scott
Waste Reduction and Special Events Manager
(813) 348-1165
Fax: (813) 348-2082

Nina Stokes

Recycling Coordinator

(813) 348-6515

Fax: (813) 348-2082

Missed Pickups/Blue Box Requests:
Customer Service
(813) 348-1111
Extension 2