Helping Santa Fe rethink their waste
Recycle
Recycle
Many of these common household or office items can be placed in your recycling bin or taken to a transfer station. Recycling used materials into new products reduces: the consumption of raw materials, energy usage, air pollution from incineration, and water pollution from landfilling.


PLASTIC # 1-7 RECYCLING
Capital Scrap Metal now accepts plastic # 1-7 for recycling!
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batteries CURBSIDE RECYCLING
What can and cannot go in your curbside bin and how should it be separated?
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batteries RECYCLE AT WORK
Find out how you can save $$ by recycling! Print recycling posters for your business or school.
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PHONE BOOK RECYCLING
You can recycle your phone books at any of the following drop off bin locations:
BuRRT >
County Transfer Stations >
City of Santa Fe Environmental Services Division >
BUCKMAN ROAD RECYCLING & TRANSFER STATION HOURS: 8:00am - 4:45pm Mon - Sun
CAJA DEL RIO LANDFILL
HOURS: 7:00am - 5:00pm Mon - Sat
Recycling is third on the list in the waste reduction hierarchy, after reduce and reuse.

Although it is not the answer to reducing our impact on the environment, it does provide a way to use valuable materials more than once.  If we didn’t recycle, we could end up extracting and using non renewable resources (precious metals and oil) until they are completely depleted.

What can I recycle in Santa Fe?

There are many different items that you can recycle in Santa Fe, where you can recycle it just depends on what the item is.  You can recycle electronics, hazardous waste, and green waste, but this section will concentrate on common recyclables that don’t require special handling or care.

Most types of mixed paper, # 1 & 2 plastic bottles and jugs, and metals such as foil, aluminum, and tin can be recycled.  Glass can also be recycled but it needs to be in a separate bin.  See the materials to the right to find out where your items are accepted.

See the City and County Residential Recycling Brochure for more information.