The City of Westerville Public Service Department partners with Rumpke Waste & Recycling to provide trash and recycling pick-up services for residents. Rumpke recently opened the Rumpke Recycling & Resource Center, North America's largest recycling facility with new technology, which enables the City to accept more types of materials for recycling.

View the following video to see what happens to your recycling after pick up.

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Recycling Guidelines

Please visit the Rumpke website to view a full list of acceptable items.

Non-recyclable items*

• Aerosol cans (if they contain hazardous material such as spray paint) **
• Animal waste
• Broken glass
• Baby diapers
• Containers of liquid cleaners or hazardous material *
• Garden hoses
• Light bulbs
• Plastic grocery bags
• Plastic or metal hangers
• Polystyrene food containers (meat trays, etc.)
• Tissues
• Styrofoam
• Window glass

Many stores, including Kroger, Walmart, Target and Meijer, accept plastic grocery bags for recycling. Check with your store for location of their containers.

*Rumpke, has partnered with the Hefty ReNew Program, which enables residents to dispose of historically hard-to-recycle items. To participate in the program, residents simply put approved items in an official Hefty ReNew orange bag, then place the bag in the recycling bin or cart during regularly-scheduled recycling collection. Click here to view a list of acceptable items. Hefty ReNew bags can be purchased at grocery stores in the area.

**Items can be turned in at the Spring or Fall Household Hazardous Waste Collection events. 

All other items should be disposed of with normal trash.

Questions about proper recycling?

Have a question about what’s accepted or not accepted for recycling? Visit SWACO’s Frequently Asked Questions page.

Have unwanted or hard-to-recycle items?

Visit SWACO’s “Reuse and Recycling Search Tool” to find the best solution for your unwanted item.

Reuse, Donate, Recycle

For additional information on diversion options like reuse, donation and recycling, please visit SWACO’s website at www.swaco.org. NOTE: Rumpke is adding plastic tubs to its list of recyclable materials. 

Cardboard

Cardboard boxes need to be broken down and placed in the blue carts to be collected with recycling. Put the flattened cardboard in last to save space in your cart. Flattened cardboard left outside the carts will be collected with refuse. 

Westerville is "On a roll"...

Did you know that the average Columbus Region resident generates between four or five pounds of waste each day? There is only so much landfill space available, so it's more important than ever that we mobilize to reuse, recycle, compost or divert as much as we can.

To help ramp up the Westerville community's participation in curbside recycling, the City deployed more than 11,000 new recycling carts to residents in spring 2019.

About the carts

The receptacles can hold up to 64-gallons of recyclables and are easy to move, featuring wheels for rolling and a handle for efficient transport to curbside, as well as an attached lid. The new carts are made available through a grant and cost-sharing program provided through the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO).

Proper cart placement

When wheeling out your blue carts, please remember to position them with the arrow on the lid pointing toward the street. This helps the mechanical collection process run smoothly.

What should I do if my cart is missing or damaged?

For a questions or to report a missing or damaged cart contact City of Westerville at (614) 901-6740 or publicservice@westerville.org.