Curbside Recycling | City of Paducah

Sign Up for Voluntary, Single-Stream, Curbside Recycling

This is a voluntary, single-stream, curbside recycling program in which residents can sign up at any time. The fee is $3 per month for one 96-gallon blue rollout container that will be collected twice per month. If a resident needs additional recycling containers, each one will be an additional $3 per month charge. The fee will appear on the property owner’s Paducah Water bill.

To sign up for curbside recycling, click the Recycling logo or call the Engineering-Public Works Department at 270-444-8511. The Paducah Water account number associated with the address is required in order to complete the registration process. The person responsible for that account must be the one who requests the recycling service.

About the Curbside Recycling Program

The City of Paducah offers voluntary, single-stream, curbside recycling for its residential customers.

Residential service only
Voluntary subscription
Single-stream (no sorting necessary for accepted items)
$3 fee per month per subscriber (The fee is to purchase recycling rollout containers and due to the fact that the disposal of recyclable materials is, at this time, $5.18 more per ton than the disposal of solid waste.).
Collection at curbside/roadside (no alleys)
Collection twice per month on Mondays. If your normal trash collection day is either Tuesday or Wednesday, recycling will be collected on the first and third Monday of the month. If your normal trash collection day is either Thursday or Friday, recycling will be collected on the second and fourth Monday of the month. View the Interactive Map to find out your collection days based on address.
Uses 96-gallon blue rollout containers
Requires brush and yard waste program changes. The plan is to move to a call-in system with a minimum amount needed before collection.

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Accepted and Not Accepted Items

This is a single-stream program which means that all accepted recyclables can be placed in the recycling rollout together. There is no need to sort. The recyclables are taken to Freedom Waste Service in Paducah, a private company that has contracted with the City of Paducah for the transfer and proper disposal of solid waste and the transfer of recyclables to a processing facility.

Accepted items for recycling are office paper, newspaper, junk mail, catalogs, shredded paper, steel cans, aluminum cans, pasteboard (cereal boxes, etc.), #1 and #2 plastics, and cardboard. Residents are encouraged to rinse and crush containers. Please place items loosely in the recycling rollout and try not to use plastic bags since bags can get caught in the mechanical parts during the single-stream sorting process.

Items that should NOT be placed in the recycling rollout are electronics, batteries, household and medical hazardous waste, Styrofoam, waste oil, tires, and glass.

Drop Off Your Recyclables

The recycling drop point location at Freedom Waste Service located at 400 State Street is available in addition to the new residential curbside recycling program. The drop point location is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon. There is no charge for the general public to drop off recyclables.

Keys to Success

The keys to the program’s success are public participation and the efficiencies gained in the Engineering-Public Works Department through a restructuring of the brush and yard waste collection program. The City has changed to a call-in request system with brush collection based upon a minimum volume of material to be collected. Also, residents should manage some of their yard waste/grass clipping at the household level by mulching or by using the garbage rollout for smaller volumes of twigs and bags of yard waste.

To request a collection of brush, tree limbs, or several bags of yard waste, call 270-444-8511.

The City of Paducah is committed to providing a responsible and efficient curbside recycling program that enables our community to make a positive impact on the environment.

Feedback

If you have a question about recycling, contact the Engineering-Public Works Department at 270-444-8511. The City of Paducah encourages citizens to be engaged throughout this process. Please direct comments and suggestions to Public Information Officer Pam Spencer or 270-444-8669.