Jacksonville, NC Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Section 9-10(a) limits this program to residential and small business customers as defined elsewhere in Chapter 9, and § 9-10(b) sets the container options: an eighteen-gallon container or the sixty-four-gallon recycling container on wheels, both provided by the City of Jacksonville. The city caps the free supply at one 64-gallon cart per household, and while additional containers can be requested, the sanitation division grants them based on availability of the containers and overall public need rather than automatically. Section 9-10(c) defines what actually counts as recyclable in Jacksonville: newspapers, magazines, white and colored paper, catalogues under two inches thick, glass bottles, plastic soda bottles, milk jugs, water bottles, and aluminum and tin cans.

That list isn't fixed forever, the city's ability to collect these or similar materials depends on the materials recovery facility, or MRF, at the Onslow County Landfill, and may vary based on that facility's availability, capability, and the marketability of the material, meaning what's accepted curbside can shift with market and processing conditions at the county level rather than staying static in the ordinance text.