Austin Recycle and Reuse Center: How to Book a Visit

Austin recycle and reuse center visits need an appointment

The Austin recycle and reuse center does not take walk-ups. Schedule the visit online or in the Austin Recycles app before you load the car. The same appointment can cover a drop-off and a stop at the reuse shelf, where the city sets out free paint, cleaning supplies, and mulch when they have them.

Use is free for Austin and Travis County residents, except tires. The city posts a tire fee of $6 per tire. If you do not live in Austin or Travis County, fees apply. Businesses cannot drop off hazardous waste here. Those calls go to 512-974-4335.

Look up a forgotten time in the confirmation email, in the app calendar, or online with the home address you used. Arrive with the items you named when you booked.

What the Austin recycle and reuse center accepts

Household hazardous waste includes paint, cleaners, pesticides, pool chemicals, aerosols, auto fluids, oil filters, cooking oil, fluorescent bulbs, mercury, batteries, and small propane cylinders. Pack them in labeled containers of five gallons or less. Do not mix products. Do not use a trash bag.

Electronics and appliances include phones, computers, printers, televisions, microwaves, stoves, washers, dryers, and lamps. The center also takes clean plastic bags and film, Styrofoam without peanuts, cardboard, paper, glass bottles, hard plastic, and scrap metal. Clothing and housewares can be dropped for reuse.

Not accepted as hazardous waste: business waste, ammunition and other explosives, radioactive material, and medical sharps. Those limits are on the official center page.

Related steps: Austin hazardous waste drop off, Austin electronics recycling, and Austin plastic bag drop off.