News on Behalf of Solid Waste Authority: SWA NEWS: SWA NEWS: Is It Recyclable? – Food and Beverage Cans
SWA NEWS: Is It Recyclable? – Food and Beverage Cans
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Today, many things are recyclable, but not everything. Palm Beach County’s dual-stream recycling program only accepts certain items for recycling. Food and beverage cans are two of them. They, along with pet food cans, go into the blue recycling bin.
It doesn’t matter if the metal cans are made from aluminum or steel. The different metals are separated by type at different points along the blue recycling processing line. Once sorted from the other blue recycling bin materials, food and beverage cans are delivered to manufacturers to make new products. You can watch the sorting online.
The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County encourages you to empty the cans. But you don’t have to clean them or remove the labels.
Recycled aluminum cans can be processed and put back into use within 60 days.
In 2023, more than 11,000 tons of aluminum and steel cans were recycled.
If you have more food and beverage cans than can fit into your blue recycling bin, you can take them to one of seven Home Chemical & Recycling Centers (HCRC). Here are the SWA’s seven HCRC locations from north county to south county:
- Jupiter
North County Transfer Station
14185 Military Trail (SWA Road) in Jupiter
Monday-Friday: 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
- West Palm Beach
Home Chemical and Recycling Center
6161 N. Jog Road in West Palm Beach
Monday-Friday: 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m.–5 p.m.
- Belle Glade
Glades Regional Transfer Station
1701 State Road 15 in Belle Glade
Monday-Friday: 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Royal Palm Beach
West Central Transfer Station
9743 Weisman Way in Royal Palm Beach
Monday-Friday: 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
- Lantana
Central County Transfer Station
1810 Lantana Road in Lantana
Monday-Friday: 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Delray Beach – West
Southwest County Transfer Station
13400 South State Road 7 in Delray Beach
Monday-Friday: 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
- Delray Beach – East
South County Transfer Station
1901 SW 4th Ave. in Delray Beach
Monday-Friday: 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
The full lists of items accepted items in the SWA’s dual-stream recycling program can be found online.
Palm Beach County needs your help to remain a top recycler in Florida. Recycle right every day, Palm Beach County.
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About the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County
The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County (SWA or Authority) is a Dependent Special District that was created by the Florida Legislature in 1975. Since then, the SWA has developed an award-winning integrated solid waste management system to handle the county’s waste and recyclables. We call ourselves AWAY: whether you throw it, recycle it or flush it AWAY, we put your waste to work. Each year, we:
- Process 100,000 tons of recyclables
- Combust approximately 1.8 million tons of trash to generate electricity at renewable energy facilities
- Produce enough electricity to power approximately 90,000 homes
- Recycle more than 130,000 tons of wastewater treatment residuals (sludge from flushes) into an environmentally-friendly fertilizer amendment
- Safely recycle or dispose of more than 4.7 million pounds of home hazards
- Collect rainwater from the roofs of Renewable Energy Facility 2 and store it in a 2-million gallon cistern, which is used as part of the energy making process
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