Residential recycling is collected in blue bins at the curb on the same day as residential garbage. Find out your collection day on this map. Place blue collection bins at least four feet away from the garbage container to avoid damage by the other collection vehicles. Place bins at the curb no sooner than noon the day before collections and remove from the curb by 7 AM the day after collections. Check out the Recycling & Solid Waste Reference Guide.

Additional blue recycling bins are available at no extra charge. To report a damaged recycle bin, or to order a new recycle bin, fill out an online service request, email sanitation@cityofrockhill.com, or call 803-325-2500.

Recycling is also available at apartment complexes serviced by the City. If the dumpsters have a City of Rock Hill logo, contact the Commercial Recycling Supervisor, at 803-329-5543 for more information.

Items that can be put in your blue recycling bin:

• Aluminum cans, foil, and plates (empty or remove food)
• Steel cans (empty and push the lids inside the cans)
• Plastic bottles, jugs and jars (empty with lids on)
• Mixed Paper (newspaper, magazines, office paper, junk mail, etc. No shredded paper)
• Chipboard (cereal boxes, tissue boxes, cracker boxes, shoe boxes, paper towel tubes, etc.)
• Corrugated Cardboard – stack empty, flattened cardboard next to your curbside recycling bin. Cardboard must be cut down to 2-foot x 2-foot sections. Corrugated materials can also be flattened and recycled in red dumpsters at all City Fire Stations.

We do NOT accept these items: 

• NO shredded paper
• NO cartons
• NO plastic bags (take to your local grocery store for recycling)
• NO styrofoam
• NO plastic or paper cups
• NO plastic plates or utensils.
• NO glass (glass can be recycled at the 16 York County Collection & Recycling Centers)

Additional materials can be taken to one of the York County Collection and Recycling Center locations for recycling including used motor oil, automobile batteries, and corrugated cardboard.

Televisions, computers and tires can be disposed of for free by dropping them off at any of the County Collection & Recycling Center locations. Public Works can also pick these items up on your regular collection day for a fee applied to your utility bill. If you would like to schedule a pickup for any of the above items or have questions please call 803-325-2500.

Household batteries (AA, AAA, C, D, and nine-volt) may be placed in your household trash.

Your community group can recycle at your events for free. See the Special Events Recycling Toolkit Instructions (PDF).

Bags to Benches Program

You can recycle your plastic bags and wrap plastic through the Bags to Benches program at the following Rock Hill Recreation Centers: Boyd Hill, Fewell Park, Emmett Scott, and Northside. Look for the bin and deposit your grocery bags, overwrap, bread bags, sandwich bags and other plastic wrap. For every 500 pounds of plastic collected and recycled the City earns a free bench made of Trex materials.