Recycling in Bay City

Who Can Recycle?

• Curbside recycling collection is available to all residential City of Bay City utility customers.
• Commercial Recycling for businesses is available for an additional monthly fee. Click here for commercial recycling information. 

What Can Be Recycled? 

• 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.

How Do I Recycle? 

• The City dropped off 96-gallon recycling carts to all residents in December 2022. Set out your recycling by following the bi-weekly recycling pickup schedule. 
• 18-gallon city recycling bins and any non-issued, personal recycling bins will no longer be collected curbside from residential or commercial properties. Recycling must be in 96-gallon recycling carts.
• Request additional recycling carts for an additional monthly fee by selecting the following link!
  • Additional City trash/recycle cart request

Find out more detailed information about your recycling cart: www.recyclecarts.baycityrecycles.org.

What Happens to the Recyclables after they are Collected?

• 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 various places within Michigan, the U.S., North America, and abroad to be made back into new products.