City Hall Plastic Bag & Battery Drop-Off Program

Did you know you can recycle your household batteries and clean single-use plastic bags at City Hall? The City has drop-off bins located inside of City Hall for these common, but hard to properly dispose of, items.

Single-use plastic bags should not be placed in the recycling cart because they are not recyclable and cause damage to EDCO’s materials sorting machines. Instead, you can collect clean plastic bags that have not been contaminated by food or other material, and drop them off at City Hall. They are then compressed into bales and sent to be recycled into building materials. 

Batteries, especially lithium-ion batteries, are dangerous to place into the trash or recycling containers at home because they cause contamination at the recycling facility and can cause dangerous fires due to their high flammability.