La Porte Recycling Center
2963 North 23rd Street
Public Works Service Center location
281-471-9650
publicworks@ci.la-porte.tx.us

Open 7:00 am - 7:00pm, Seven Days a Week

Staff is available to assist with unloading recycle materials and load trucks with mulch the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 2:00pm to 4:00pm

 (subject to change due to holidays)
      
 

Why Recycle | Accepted Items | Recycling Metal | Recycling Oil | Free Compost

 

Why Recycle

Solid waste disposal is a large portion of the City’s annual budget.  By recycling as much of the waste as possible, the city is able to lower the disposal costs.  Every cubic yard of waste recycled is a cubic yard of landfill and citizen dollars saved. Recycling of yard wastes allows the city to produce mulch and compost which is used in city parks and nature trails.  The city is able to make this product available to our citizens at no cost most of the year.  Oil recycling allows the citizen a way to properly dispose of used motor oil in an environmentally responsible way and keep oil out of our waterways.
Recycling allows the reuse of precious resources which have become more expensive and less available over the years.


 

City Recycling Center Accepts: 



 

  • Paper - Newspapers, Magazines, Phone books, and Catalogs
  • Plastics - #1 and #2s - Such as milk bottles, water bottles, soda
                   bottles, juice bottles, bleach bottles, vitamin bottles,
                   over-the-counter medicine bottles, shampoo bottles
                   (bottles should be rinsed out).
  • Tin and Steel Products/Cans
  • Aluminum Products/Cans
  • Corrugated Cardboard
  • Fiberboard Boxes - Such as cereal boxes, cake boxes, macaroni
                                 boxes, soda boxes.
  • Clear and Colored Glass
  • Batteries - Include alkaline, automobile, motorcycle, RV, Marine,
                     computer, laptop, Uninterruptible Power Supplies
                     (UPSes)
                     Only accepted on Saturday Recycling Day
  • Aerosol Cans
  • Brush
  • Leaves and Grass
  • Old Paint Cans - only accepted on Saturday Recycling Day and as
                             long as the paint is completely dry
  • Tires - only accepted on Saturday Recycling Day

 

Metal Recycling

All metals (except aluminum cans) are collected on the regularly scheduled heavy trash day, separated, and transported to the Public Works Service Center where it is placed in a container.  The container is collected by a vendor and the city receives scrap value for the metal.


 

Oil Recycling

Oil Recycling Centers are at these locations for your convenience:
  • •Public Works Service Center (2963 North 23rd Street)
  • Lomax School Road and North P Street (adjacent to Fire Station #3)
  • •Allen and Kerber Auto Supply (518 West Main Street)
  • •Water Well at 10215 Hillridge
  • •Water Well at 8610 Bandridge
  • •Howard’s Hardware (2426 Old Highway 146)

     

  • ••Oil Recycling:

     - –Open 24 hours, 7 days a week

–     - Used motor oil and filters only.  No antifreeze, paint, etc.

     - You may drop off used antifreeze as long as it is kept in the
        container you brought it in.

     –- No commercial operators waste will accepted; do-it-yourselfers
       only!  

 


 

Free Mulch


Brush is collected separately from residences on the regularly scheduled heavy trash day and transported to Public Works.  The brush is chipped using a tub grinder and allowed to much. 
 
The mulch is used by the City’s Parks and Recreation Department in city parks and nature trails.  Mulch is available to residents of the city at no cost, as long as it is available. 

The City of La Porte has at eight locations where you can pick up the mulch. These locations are:
Spenwick Park, 9300 block of Carlow

8610 Bandridge, by old recycler

Hillridge, in the area of the oil recycler 10211

1508 Lomax Schooled Road

East "E" Street @ Arizona

South Broadway @ Lift Station 3, 1700 S. Broadway

City Park at Tyler and 4th St

12202 N C St, behind Public Works Building

In 2000, the City of La Porte purchased a tub grinder to grind brush, wood and yard waste set at the curb by La Porte residents on their regular heavy trash scheduled pickup. We are able to offer our residents free mulch for their landscaping and gardening needs. The mulch has been available for eight years at the Public Works facility at 2963 North 23rd street, from 8am to 4pm.
 
Residents wishing to pick up mulch should call the Public Works Department at 281-471-9650 to determine if mulch is available and for directions.  Compost must be picked up and transported by the resident.  Mulch can not be delivered.