Where and What to Recycle in Little Rock

Curbside Pickup of Recyclables

Service is available to single family homes in Little Rock. If you do not have a curbside bin call 311 and request that a bin be delivered to your home. It usually takes about a week to get the bin to you.

The following materials can be recycled:

Plastic bottles: Clear/green soda, water and juice bottles; milk jugs; other colored plastic bottles; basically any plastic item with neck having diameter smaller than base.
Plastic bags: Plastic grocery bags and dry cleaning bags (no food residue).
Paper: Newspaper with inserts; corrugated cardboard boxes, flattened; paperboard boxes (i.e. cereal, cracker boxes) no wax lining, flattened; brown paper grocery bags, junk mail, magazines.
Cans: Aluminum cans; steel beverage & food containers.
Glass: Clear green or brown food and beverage containers.
PLEASE rinse food residue from all containers.

Drop-off Recycling

Fair Park Blvd, across from the LR Zoo, Saturdays 7am – 12 noon.
St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church – 20900 Chenal, Saturdays 7am – 12 noon

SW Community Center – 6401 Baseline, Saturdays – 7am to 12 noon

For more information visit Little Rock’s Public Works’ website

Other Recycling Opportunities

Household Chemical Collections

Accepted materials:

  • Household quantities of solvents
  • Common household cleaners: ammonia, bleach, disinfectants, strong cleansers – liquid and powder, degreasers, oven cleaners, spot removers, and drain cleaners
  • Used oil, gasoline, and antifreeze
  • Household, nickel-cadmium and car batteries
  • Pesticides, insecticides and herbicides
  • Fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs
  • Mercury-containing household items
  • Medical sharps containers.

Items should be in the original container and clearly labeled. Only household quantities of common household chemicals will be accepted. Waste from businesses, ammunition or other explosives will not be accepted. Please limit quantities to five 5-gallon containers of any material. No trailers will be accepted.

Directions: Pulaski County Sanitation, behind the county jail, off Roosevelt road to Brown Street. From Brown Street, turn right at the Pulaski County Road and Bridge Department; follow the signs to the Sanitation department until you see our center. 
Open Thursday (7:00 am to 9:30 am and 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm) and the 2nd Saturday of the month (7:00 am to noon). Closed on Thanksgiving.
10001 Kanis Rd. in the back parking lot of the Little Rock Police Substation at the corner of Jr. Deputy and Kanis. 
Open Thursdays (7:00 am to 9:30 am and 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm) and the 1st Saturday of the month (7:00 am to noon). Closed on Thanksgiving.

Electronic Recycling



Accepted Materials:

Household, residential quantities of:

  • Computers
  • Copiers
  • DVD players
  • Paper shredders
  • Printers
  • Televisions
  • VCRs
  • Cell phones
  • Microwave ovens



Locations and times same as Household Chemicals (above).

Household Battery Recycling

Radio Shack now accepts all household batteries for recycling.

Tire Disposal



You may turn in up to four passenger or light truck tires (under 19”) per day for free. There is a $4 fee for each tire over four in a day or for larger truck tires.
Davis Rubber Company 
1600 E. 15th Street , Little Rock
Open Monday – Friday, 8am – 3:30pm 
501- 374-2166

More information is available at Regional Recycling