Examples of plastics taken at the centers: Plastic grocery bags, heavy plastic wrap such the type that comes over paper towels or toilet paper, plastic straws, blue or other colored plastics or bags with the recycling triangles, thin plastic wrap such as syran wrap, cereal bags from the inside of cereal boxes, plastic bottle lids with no triangle, plastic clear storage bags and trash bags such as Hefty, Glad etc. Please rinse out all containers.

Examples of what plastics we cannot take: Mixed containers such as those for nuts that have some plastic and some paper board and are difficult to separate, Styrofoam even with the recycling triangle, Styrofoam peanuts.

At these locations, Knoxvillians can also recycle aluminum cans, newspaper, clear glass, brown glass, green glass, steel cans, #1 to #7 plastics, cardboard and mixed paper.

DROP-OFF CENTERS

There are two unattended recycling drop-off centers operated in association with Food City stores in the city.

The drop-off centers are located at:

Food City Stores