Blue Barrel Curbside Recycling Program
**UPDATE**: The City of Mesa Blue Barrel Program now accepts all plastic cups
and containers #1-7. Please see below for product examples.
The blue barrel is for the recycling of City designated
acceptable materials and is collected curbside on a weekly basis including
all holidays. Items placed into the blue barrel should not be bagged but they
should be relatively clean, dry and empty. Lids and labels do not need to
be removed. Barrels should be to the curb by 6 a.m. and removed no later
than 6 a.m. the following day.
*NEW with color pictures*
Blue
Barrel Flyer (.pdf 1 page)
Watch Plastic bag public service
announcement (Windows Media)
In-home recycling containers now
available (Windows Media)
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Material Type |
Examples |
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Aluminum |
TV dinner trays, pet food and tuna cans, pie plates, soda
and beer cans, and clean aluminum foil |
|
Cardboard/Paperboard |
Corrugated cardboard with the wiggly center used for packing
boxes and boxes made from recycled cardboard; detergent boxes, 6- and
12-pack beverage containers, empty paper towel tubes, cereal boxes, and other dry food boxes |
|
Glass |
Food and beverage containers only; juice bottles, beer and
wine bottles, baby food jars, mayonnaise and jelly jars, etc. |
|
Metal Cans |
Food cans that hold soup, vegetables, pet food, tuna, etc. |
|
Newspaper |
Newspaper and newspaper inserts |
|
Magazines |
Softbound magazines and catalogs |
|
Paper |
White and colored writing paper, computer paper, clean paper
bags, direct mail
(i.e.- junk mail) What about shredded paper? |
|
*** NEW CHANGES ***
Plastic cups & containers #1-7 |
Plastic bottles, jugs and jars; disposable plastic cups;
yogurt and cottage cheese containers; margarine and whipped topping tubs;
"clamshell" food containers. NO plastic liners. What about plastic
bags? |
|
Telephone Books |
Qwest and all other phone books |
|
Milk and juice cartons |
Includes ice cream containers |
- Propane or oxygen tanks
- Plastic bags (any type)
- Packing materials - styrofoam peanuts, bubble wrap
- Light bulbs, ceramics or window glass
- Motor-oil containers
- Potato chip bags
- Paper towels, napkins, tissues or paper plates
- Clothes hangers, scrap metal, automotive parts
- Inserts from paperboard boxes (plastic bags/trays)
- Air-conditioning filters
- Clothing, cloth or rags
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- Styrofoam (including egg cartons)
- Rubber bands or elastic products
- Gift wrap
- Dog food bags
- Diapers
- Fast food items like food, wrappers, or greasy bags
- PVC piping
- Wood or yard waste
- Batteries
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Additional or larger size blue
barrels are available free of charge. For more
information, please call the Mesa Recycling Hotline at (480) 644-2222. If you are unsure of your
collection days, please call the Solid Waste
Division at (480) 644-2688 or view a map of
the
City's
collection schedule (.pdf 1 page).
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