Every Las Cruces residential customer gets a 96-gallon blue recycling bin delivered with their trash cart, collected curbside every other week by SCSWA. Participation is not fined. The rule of four applies: paper, plastic, aluminum, and cardboard go in loose and clean.
Curbside recycling is built into city residential service, so households do not opt in separately. SCSWA delivers a 96-gallon blue bin alongside the brown trash cart and empties it every other week on the regular route day. The accepted stream follows the rule of four: paper, plastic, aluminum, and cardboard. That covers flattened cardboard, printer paper, newspaper and magazines, milk and juice cartons, aluminum, steel and tin cans, and plastics marked 1 and 2. Materials go in loose and clean, not bagged. Collected recyclables move through the SCSWA transfer station on West Amador Avenue to a material recovery facility in El Paso. No ordinance fines a resident for skipping recycling, but bagged or contaminated loads may be left.
Residential recycling participation is voluntary and unenforced against households. Contaminating the blue bin with bagged trash, food waste, or non-recyclables, or overfilling it so the lid will not close, can result in the bin being left uncollected until corrected.
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