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 is collected twice per month. If a resident needs additional recycling containers, each one is an additional $3 per month charge. The fee appears on the property owner’s Paducah Water bill.
To sign up for curbside recycling, click the Recycling logo or call the 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.
The City of Paducah offers voluntary, single-stream, curbside recycling for its residential customers.
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.
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.
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. 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 yard waste or brush, call the Engineering-Public Works Department at 270-444-8511.
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.