The City of Troy provides FREE curbside recycling service to its residential garbage customers.  Residential curbside recycling is picked up the same as your normal garbage schedule. Simply place your recycling bags or rollout your recycling cart next to your garbage cart. Recycling Service is FREE in the City of Troy. Recycling bags are available at City Hall, Troy Public Library, Troy Recreation Center, and the Troy recycling Center.  Call 311 for a FREE recycling cart. Also, the City will supply recycling bags each week they pickup recycling from your residence. 

Keep Troy Beautiful and the City of Troy work hard to encourage residents to REUSE products, RECYCLE materials, and REDUCE waste.

“Get Caught Green Handed” is a program to promote and increase residents’ recycling efforts.

How it works:  In appreciation of residents actively participating in recycling, the City of Troy Recycling Team will report one (1) actively participating residential address each month to Keep Troy Beautiful. A member of the Keep Troy Beautiful Recycling Committee will be deployed to drive by and “catch” households recycling at the selected address.

The incentives are: Each randomly chosen household “getting caught” recycling will receive a prize donated by a local business or organization in gratitude for their green hands in recycling and in their efforts to Keep Troy Beautiful. That’s a prize just for recycling! 

The rewards are: Recycling helps create new jobs in our community and the United States for both the recycling industry and manufacturing which helps our economy. Recycling helps to reduce the amount of litter in our City. Recycling saves the environment by reusing materials that would otherwise be sent to the landfill: aluminum cans can be made into a bicycle; plastic soda and water bottles can be made into clothing, fabric shopping bags, and carpet; plastic milk and     detergent jugs can be made into paint cans, decking, and furniture.  Did you know that the swings and benches downtown on the Square are partially made from recycled plastic lumber?

We hope to “catch” many residents “green handed” recycling! We hope to see this incentive  program result in significantly increased recycling tonnages and participation!

Call 311 to find out how easy it is to recycle in the City of Troy!!