Recycling in Bay City

• Curbside recycling collection is available to all utility customers in the City of Bay City.

• Items such as glass food/beverage bottles and jars; plastic bottles and containers; steel and aluminum cans; paper drink cartons; cardboard and boxboard; newspaper, magazines, junk mail and more. Check out the recycling guidelines for more information.

• Place all acceptable recyclable items into a single recycling container and set out each week on your regular collection day. 
• 18-gallon recycling bins are available from the Sanitation Department at City Hall, 301 Washington Ave, Suite 413.
• For additional or replacement City recycling bins, new online payments now available here! Recycling bin will be dropped off on next service day. 
• Non-issued, personal containers may also be used for recycling, as long as they are 32 gal or smaller and labeled appropriately. Please note that we are not responsible for personal containers and lids that are lost or damaged. 

• The recyclables collected from Bay City are delivered to a transfer station in Saginaw where they are combined with recyclables from other communities. From there, they are sent to a Republic Services Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Southfield and/or New Boston. At the MRF, the recyclables are sorted and separated into different material types, baled and shipped to a variety of places within Michigan, the U.S., North America and abroad to be made back into new products.