Recycling & Waste Reduction at OCPS

Recycling helps reduce our environmental impact and saves the district money. This process gives your items a new life by recycling the material into other products. Waste Reduction is the broader effort that involves decreasing the overall volume of items sent to the landfill. Recycling is an important part of waste reduction, but other programs also support this effort:

• Specialty Recycling of items not recycled in the standard blue bins.
• Food Recycling (aka "Composting") that turns food waste into nutrient-rich soil.
• Reuse programs, which help replace single-use items with reusable ones, or finding a new purpose for old items.
• Reduction programs, such as buying less of what you don't need, or picking products that have less wasteful packaging.