Pasco County Recycling Website
How do I recycle in Pasco County?
Recycle the following items: aluminum cans; metal cans (food cans); #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 & #7 plastic bottles and jars, and clear, green, and brown glass bottles and jars. Please remove caps and/or lids. Please clean and rinse your items.
Bi-weekly recycling pick-up in Stonegate is on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Note: The dates are posted on our community calendar.
How do I recycle in Pasco County?
- Purchase your own or use an existing container: a bin, a can, or a cart.
- You must put a reflective recycling sticker on your permanent container.
- Call your garbage hauler for a sticker.
- Put everything in the same container and put out the night before your recycling day.
Recycle the following items: aluminum cans; metal cans (food cans); #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 & #7 plastic bottles and jars, and clear, green, and brown glass bottles and jars. Please remove caps and/or lids. Please clean and rinse your items.
Bi-weekly recycling pick-up in Stonegate is on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Note: The dates are posted on our community calendar.
Use this sticker for your recycling container. Call (727) 847-9100 to order more stickers.
Customer Information & Services Booklet
Does Pasco recycle white goods/scrap metal? This program is for scrap metal items, such as appliances, hot water heaters, microwaves, metal shelves etc. There is a small fee for refrigerators and air conditioning units. Drop off at the East Pasco Transfer Station or West Pasco Resource Recovery. For use by County residents only.
What about business or commercial recycling? Pasco County does not require nor offer commercial or business recycling at this time. However, a business can engage in recycling on a private basis. The Pasco County recycling office can provide business owners with helpful information on how to "green up" a business. Call the Recycling Coordinator at (727) 856-4539.
Where can I recycle electronics such as televisions or computers? We accept electronics and televisions for recycling at our two main drop-off sites. They are located at the West Pasco Resource Recovery Facility and at the East Pasco Transfer Station. There is a small fee for recycling these items.
Where can I recycle used motor oil or used cooking oil? Pasco County recycles both items at the West Pasco Resource Recovery Facility and at the East Pasco Transfer Station.
Where can I recycle car batteries? We accept car batteries for recycling at our two main drop-off sites at the West Pasco Resource Recovery Facility and the East Pasco Transfer Station. There is a small fee for recycling these items.
Where can I recycle household batteries? There are household battery collection buckets in Pasco County government buildings and libraries.
Other options for battery recycling abound such as the mail-order service, Battery Solutions, which will recycle your spent batteries at a cost of 85 cents per pound. To find a company near you where you can drop off your old batteries for recycling, please see this comprehensive national database:
Earth911.org or download their mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android
While not a part of the Pasco County Recycling program, local schools, libraries and select Fire Departments serve as drop-off locations for paper and cardboard.
Does Pasco recycle white goods/scrap metal? This program is for scrap metal items, such as appliances, hot water heaters, microwaves, metal shelves etc. There is a small fee for refrigerators and air conditioning units. Drop off at the East Pasco Transfer Station or West Pasco Resource Recovery. For use by County residents only.
What about business or commercial recycling? Pasco County does not require nor offer commercial or business recycling at this time. However, a business can engage in recycling on a private basis. The Pasco County recycling office can provide business owners with helpful information on how to "green up" a business. Call the Recycling Coordinator at (727) 856-4539.
Where can I recycle electronics such as televisions or computers? We accept electronics and televisions for recycling at our two main drop-off sites. They are located at the West Pasco Resource Recovery Facility and at the East Pasco Transfer Station. There is a small fee for recycling these items.
Where can I recycle used motor oil or used cooking oil? Pasco County recycles both items at the West Pasco Resource Recovery Facility and at the East Pasco Transfer Station.
Where can I recycle car batteries? We accept car batteries for recycling at our two main drop-off sites at the West Pasco Resource Recovery Facility and the East Pasco Transfer Station. There is a small fee for recycling these items.
Where can I recycle household batteries? There are household battery collection buckets in Pasco County government buildings and libraries.
Other options for battery recycling abound such as the mail-order service, Battery Solutions, which will recycle your spent batteries at a cost of 85 cents per pound. To find a company near you where you can drop off your old batteries for recycling, please see this comprehensive national database:
Earth911.org or download their mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android
While not a part of the Pasco County Recycling program, local schools, libraries and select Fire Departments serve as drop-off locations for paper and cardboard.