Miami-Dade County Launches New Recycling Program

Miami-Dade County has launched a new recycling program. This new curbside recycling program will use single-stream recycling, which means that residents will no longer have to separate their recyclable materials.

Residents will be issued one 65-gallon wheeled cart where they can place all of their recyclable materials, together, the press release says.

The biggest advantages of this new program are that residents no longer have to separate their recyclables and they can now recycle more types of paper products.

Acceptable materials to be recycled include:

• Paper Products: newspapers, magazines, catalogs, telephone books, printer paper, copier paper, mail, all other officer paper without wax liners, 
• Cardboard: packing boxes, cereal boxes, gift boxes, corrugated cardboard; flatten all boxes prior to placing them in your cart ,
• Plastic Containers (narrow necks only): bottles (without caps or lids), milk, water, detergent and shampoo containers (without caps),
• Aseptic Containers: polycoated drink boxes, juice cartons, milk cartons,
• Glass: glass food & beverage containers (clear, brown and green) and
• Metals: aluminum & steel food and beverage containers.

Only plastic containers with the triangle label symbol No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7 can be recycled at this time. These numbers are located on the base of the container.