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Recycling – Curbside and Drop-Off

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The City strongly supports recycling and encourages all citizens to take part in waste reduction. Citizens may take part by:

  • participating in the City’s curbside recycling service
  • bringing materials to the public drop-off site operated by the City of Champaign

City ordinances provide for curbside recycling to all citizens who live in a single to four-plex residence. This service is provided by the waste hauler who is required to provide recycling as part of basic service and must accept the following materials:

  • newspaper
  • glass jars or bottles
  • tin cans
  • aluminum cans
  • HDPE plastic containers

Haulers must provide curbside collection of recyclables at least once a week and can not count materials toward the “per container cost” of service. Citizens interested in participating in the curbside recycling program should call their local waste hauler.

Hagan Street Recycling Drop-off

The City also provides a 24-hour, 7 days a week, free recycling drop-off site. The drop-off site is open to the public and is located at 1701 Hagan St., Champaign, Illinois. The facility is just east of the Home Depot shopping center on Bloomington Road.

The drop-off site operates a two-sort program in which materials should be separated into two types:

  1. Containers
  2. Fibers

Accepted Fiber Items:

Mixed Paper:

  1. White and colored paper
  2. Typed Paper
  3. Copier Paper
  4. Stationary and letterhead
  5. Carbonless (NCR) forms
  6. Computer print-outs
  7. Manila folders
  8. Newspapers
  9. Journals
  10. Magazines
  11. Glossy or slick paper
  12. Paper with mailing labels or gummed stickers
  13. Envelopes
  14. Telephone books
  15. Gift wrap
  16. Ream wrappers

Note that papers with staples, paperclips, tape, and glue are all okay.

Cardboard:

  1. Paper grocery bags, must be tearable — brown or grey
  2. Tissue boxes
  3. Beverages boxes
  4. Frozen food boxes
  5. Food mix boxes
  6. Cereal boxes
  7. Corrugated boxes – must be broken down

Accepted Container Items:

(Must be clean)

Plastic containers

  1. PETE Plastic (#1)
  2. HPDE Plastic (#2)
  3. V Plastic (#3)
  4. LDPE Plastic (#4)
  5. PP Plastic (#5)

General definition of these types of plastic:

PETE Plastic (#1)

Typically soft drink bottles, salad dressing, peanut butter jars, etc.

HDPE Plastic (#2)

Typically blow molded bottles and injection molded containers, both natural white and colored, such as milk, water, and detergent bottles.

V Plastic (#3)

containers include health and beauty products, household cleaners

LDPE Plastic (#4)

margarine tubs and frozen dessert cups, 6 and 12 pack ring carriers.

PP Plastic (#5)

yogurt cups, syrup and ketchup bottles, etc.

PS Plastic (#6)

Plastic cutlery, CD and DVD jewel cases, etc. (NO STYROFOAM)

Glass containers:

Bottles and jars can be clear, brown, and green (should be clean)

Cannot accept:

  • giftware
  • dishes
  • crockery
  • windows
  • mirrors
  • fluorescent bulbs

Metal containers:

  • Aluminum (cans, foil, trays) — should be clean.
  • Tin cans, including empty aerosol cans.

Unacceptable Items:

  1. Carbons
  2. Books — hard or paperback
  3. Blueprints
  4. Photographs
  5. Tissue & Towels
  6. Paper cups
  7. Candy or gum wrappers
  8. Plastic or metal report covers
  9. Styrofoam of any sort