Irondequoit, NY Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Recycling is mandatory in the Town of Irondequoit. Section 192-4 explains that the Solid Waste Management Law was adopted because the New York State Solid Waste Management Act of 1988 required municipalities to adopt a local law, and because Monroe County Local Law No. 4-1991, the Solid Waste Reuse and Recycling Law, requires each municipality in the county to enact a mandatory recycling ordinance or local law.

Section 192-22 sets the set-out rule. Recyclables are prepared according to guidelines provided by the refuse collectors and approved or otherwise established by the Town. Refuse collectors shall provide curbside collection of recyclables. Recyclables must be set out in appropriate containers as specified by the Commissioner of Public Works/Superintendent of Highways or as designated by the refuse collectors, and nothing goes to the curb before 4:00 p.m. of the day before the scheduled pickup. The section history lists amendments dated 7-20-1999 and 5-20-2025.

Section 192-5 defines what counts. Plastics are HDPE with recycling code 2 (primarily milk and water jugs and cooking oil bottles), LDPE with code 4 and PET with code 1, primarily one- and two-liter soft drink containers. Glass bottles are food and beverage containers rinsed and free of food contamination, in clear, green and brown colors, and the definition excludes ceramics, plate glass, auto glass, Pyrex, leaded glass, mirrored glass and flat glass. Corrugated cardboard excludes material with wax coating. The list also names aluminum, metal cans, newsprint, magazines, glossy catalogs, paperboard, high-grade paper, large appliances and wood waste, and it says the term includes but is not limited to those items.

Section 192-21 bars throwing or depositing recyclable materials in a public right-of-way or on property the person does not own or occupy, and § 192-29(C) makes it unlawful to fail to prepare materials for collection as §§ 192-22 through 192-25 specify.