Indiana has no residential recycling mandate, and unincorporated Elkhart County requires nothing separated. The county's staffed drop-off sites were consolidated and closed, though it keeps a recycling incentive program. Elkhart city provides curbside recycling every other week.
No Indiana statute forces households to recycle, and the unincorporated county imposes no separation rule. The county consolidated and closed its neighborhood recycling drop-off sites in recent years but continues a County Recycling Incentive Program under Chapter 50 and hosts monthly household hazardous waste drop-offs. When the county dissolved its Solid Waste Management District in 2020 it kept the district's fees to fund these services. Inside Elkhart, curbside recycling is part of city service: Borden collects a 48- or 96-gallon recycling cart every other week, taking paper, cardboard, plastics, aluminum, tin and glass. Contaminated carts may be skipped.
There is no penalty for not recycling in the unincorporated county, where no state or county mandate applies. City recycling carts contaminated with trash may be tagged and left uncollected.
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Elkhart County, IN
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