Items for Pick-Up

The Recycling Alliance of North Alabama (RANA) manages monthly residential, curbside recycling, once a month. Register for a 95-gallon cart.

For more information on what goes in your recycling cart, visit RANA’s website.

Please have your cart to the curb by 7 a.m. on your pickup day and leave 3 feet of clearance around the cart.

Items collected include:

METAL

Aluminum cans and steel bi-metal cans. Lids and labels can remain on the cans. Empty and rinse before placing them loosely in the cart.

PAPER

Newspapers and inserts, magazines and catalogs, junk mail and stationery, computer and printer paper, school and office paper, paperback books and phone books, paper bags. Paper must be dry when placed in the cart.
Shredded paper can be bagged in paper bags, not plastic bags.

CARDBOARD

Cardboard must be clean, dry and broken down to fit in the cart. Break down boxes to fit inside cart with lid closed.

CARTONS

Clean and dry cartons such as tissue boxes, cereal, pasta and cardboard egg crates.

ITEMS NOT COLLECTED

Glass, pizza boxes, styrofoam, electronics, yard waste, wood, food waste, paint cans, chemicals, plastic wrap or plastic bags, tanglers (hoses, wires, hangers, chains), aerosol cans, aluminum foil, tin pie pans, deli trays or fruit containers/baskets and wide mouth plastics (sour cream, yogurt, and margarine containers).

Batteries, paint cans, used motor oil cans must be taken to the Household Hazardous Waste facility, Monday – Friday, 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., 1055 A Cleaner Way.