Benefits Of Recycling For Pearland

Keeping Pearland beautiful is everyone’s responsibility. We can all take part in helping the environment, while keeping our community clean.

The benefits of recycling for Pearland extend to later generations. You can help reduce landfill and environmental costs of waste collection. The more people recycle the cheaper recycling costs. Those are a few of the benefits of recycling.

Review the list below of recycle items you can have conveniently picked up at your curb. Junk mail is now recyclable.

Curbside pickup of material for recycling provided by the city of Pearland makes it easy for us to discard items that can be recycled. Residents, within the city limits, are provided a large plastic tub for neat storage of the recycled plastic, paper, aluminum and steel cans. All other recyclable products can be dropped off at the Pearland Recycling Center.

Review the city of Pearland Recycle Map showing days of service for particular neighborhoods.

The state of the art Pearland Recycling Center located on Harkey Road accepts almost everything that can be recycled. We all have easy access to the recycling center which is somewhat centrally located to most Pearland residents. The recycling center is perfect for dropping off any items that can be recycled, but are to large for curbside pickup or are not able to be picked up curbside.

Curbside Recycling Pickup

• newspapers, magazines, phone books, catalogs, printer & copy paper
      mail (i.e., ‘junk mail’) is acceptable
• plastic number 1 & plastic number 2
      these numbers are noted on the bottom of the plastic container
• aluminum cans & steel cans (food cans)
• cardboard – cereal, cracker, soda cardboard boxes
• yard trimmings on heavy trash day for your neighborhood
        must use clear or semi clear bags
• residents inside the city limits of Pearland can recycle
  glass curbside
• certain residents in Silverlake do not have the option to recycle glass curbside
• household hazardous waste details

Christmas Tree Disposal Recycling

Pearland Recycling Center Accepts

• Plastic
      clear & colored plastic bottles number 1 & number 2
      plastic bottle tops plus plastic numbers 3, 4, 5, & 7
  * No plastic grocery bags or packing material such as styrofoam peanuts
• Glass
      clear glass & colored glass
• Metals
      aluminum cans, steel cans & lids, scrap metal,

• Large Appliances
      * refrigerators, air conditioners & freezers must be tagged for Freon removal
• Paper
      newspaper, white office copy paper, computer paper, magazines, phone books, bound books
      * cardboard, junk mail
• Electronics – computer hardware, printers, monitors, keyboards, phones
• Office Materials – cartridges for printers, faxes and copiers, cell phones
      * rechargeable cell phone batteries and accessories
• Batteries