Recycling Center

The City of Fredericksburg's Recycling Center has become a model for small cities. Located at 302 E. Ufer Street, the Recycling Center is open five days a week (closed on Thursday and Sunday). Residents can drive-through and drop off items to be recycled as staff will assist with the unloading of materials.

Accepted Items

• Corrugated Cardboard & Pressed Chipboard (Cereal boxes, legal pad backings, etc)
• Aluminum
• Tin Cans
• Newspaper
• Magazines
• Sorted Office Paper / Bond Paper
• Mixed Plastics #1 and #2
  • #1 Plastics (PET or PETE) include salad dressing bottles and other food and drink containers
  • #2 Plastics (HDPE) include milk jugs, detergent bottles and shampoo bottles

Recycling Center Tips

Please follow these requirements to ensure the safety of recycling staff:

• Cardboard should be broken down flat to insure there are no contents left inside.  
• Plastic bottles should be completely empty.  
• Paper and cardboard items should not be wet or soiled.  As the Recycling Center is not a single stream recycling facility and space is limited, materials will only be accepted for processing if separated into these categories.
• A cardboard bailer is available for commercial customers during regular business hours.
• Large containers are placed along the drive-through, clearly marked for each of the various items. We ask you to pre-sort your items and place them into the proper boxes to expedite the procedure.

Yard Waste

In 1991, the City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting yard waste from entering the landfill. Yard waste typically represents approximately 20% of all waste going into a landfill. The City provides chipper service for all of its residents. Place tree limbs and brush at the curb next and the chipper crew will be by at least once a week to pick them up. The resulting chips may be picked up by anyone at the landfill at no charge to be used as mulch or other purposes.

Compost Pile

When you mow your grass, we encourage you to mulch it and let the clippings fall back into the grass and put valuable nutrients back into the soil. If you cannot mulch, you may bring the clippings to the landfill and place them on the compost pile at no charge. This also applies to other yard waste such as the weeds and dead plants cleaned from flower beds and gardens. For people who cannot drive to the landfill, we have placed a dumpster at the recycling center. We ask that you only place dead plants, weeds, vines, and other small yard waste in the dumpster, as space is very limited. No brush, trash, or plastic bags should be placed in the dumpster.