Pay-Per-Bag Plastics Recycling. We accept plastic bottles, jar, jugs, tubs, and buckets.
Simply purchase a recycling bag, fill it with your clean recyclables, and drop it off at one of our drop-off locations.
- Cost: $3.00 per 40 gallon bag
- Make sure containers are empty & clean.
- Please don’t cut up plastic as we sort it by type before baling & shipping
Acceptable Plastics: bottles and containers #1 #2 #5
Some common examples of these numbers can be (but are not limited to):
#1 PET: soda bottles, water bottles, most single use drinking bottles
#2 HDPE: milk jugs, detergent jugs, soap bottles, large supplement tubs, triple-rinsed chemical jugs
#5 PP: medicine bottles, dairy tubs
Non Acceptable Plastics:
#3 PVC: bottles, containers
#4 LDPE: bottles, containers
#6 PS: compact disc jackets, tableware, containers, styrofoam
#7 Other: reusable bottles, etc.
No pet food bags, feed bags, frozen vegetable or meat bags.
Clean Valley Recycling is collaborating with Otero County Landfill Inc. and “Driven” Plastics in Pueblo, to start accepting plastic film! This is a brand new program where “Driven” will take our plastic film, flake it, and add it to asphalt for our roads. What a great solution to some of our plastic waste! Click to learn more about how you can recycle your plastic film with us.
A portion of the proceeds from our plastics recycling program benefits student organizations and other nonprofits who volunteer to help recycle on Saturday mornings. If you are interested in scheduling your organization to help, visit our Volunteers page.