NYS Recycling Guides at Your Fingertips

Recycle Right NY answers 3 basic questions for NY residents:

  1. What is recyclable? (tip: it varies based on location)

  2. How do I recycle? (another tip: this can also be location dependent)

  3. and, Why should I recycle? (there are so many reasons!)

Let’s walk you through our website which serves as the one-stop-shop for these important recycling questions and more. Learn why recycling correctly is so important and how you can easily improve your recycling habits. Our interactive tools and resources will help you find your local recycling guidelines and provide waste reduction, reuse, and recycling tips for more than 300 common household items.

How to Recycle in New York State

Knowing what belongs in the recycling bin is important for helping the recycling system run effectively and smoothly. These guidelines can vary from county to county in NYS. To #KnowBeforeYouThrow, our website provides access to statewide recycling information, including:

  • The NYS Recyclopedia: Think of this as an encyclopedia for recycling. It’s a search tool and guide that provides reduction, reuse, and recycling instructions for more than 300 common household items. Enter keywords into the search bar, or explore categories to learn what to do with stuff that you no longer need while creating the least amount of waste as possible.

  • Collection of Local Guidelines: What you can recycle depends on where you are. From Long Island to the Adirondacks, no matter where you’re located in NYS, you can find the ways to recycle right in your area by browsing our collection of local recycling guidelines.

  • Locator tools: Find maps of drop-off locations for used household goods and electronics to help keep items out of landfill and conserve resources.

  • The RRNY Blog: Our blog includes tips and tricks for how to recycle right and explores other important topics related to the industry, our environment, and the ways we all interact. You can visit our blog here, or sign up for our RRNY newsletter to see the latest updates.

Why it matters

By keeping valuable materials in productive use, recycling right conserves natural resources, prevents pollution, protects public health, saves energy, creates jobs, and so much more. #RecycleRightNY

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