Solid Waste & Recycling - ECO Division, City of Melbourne, FL

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Solid Waste & Recycling Information


The Environmental Community Outreach (ECO) Division is responsible for ensuring the collection of recycling, yard trash, and refuse for residents and businesses while complying with Florida's Solid Waste Management Act, Brevard County's Recycling Plan, and municipal ordinances. 

The Division works with citizens and the contractors to resolve solid waste concerns in a timely manner. 

Contact us at (321) 953-6302, send a fax to (321) 674-5765, write us at 900 E. Strawbridge Avenue, Melbourne, FL 32901, or send e-mail to .

Choose one of the choices below to learn more.
Curbside & Drop Off Recycling Information Multi-Family Recycling Information Household Trash Yard Waste

Collection Schedules for Solid Waste, Recycling and Yard Trash
Mainland
Mainland garbage is collected on Tuesday and Friday. Material for recycling is collected on Tuesday OR Friday depending on your location. Call the recycling hotline at (321) 953-6302 for your recycle day. Mainland yard trash is collected on Monday.
Beachside
Beachside garbage is collected on Wednesday and Saturday. Material for recycling is collected on Thursday. Beachside yard trash is collected on Thursday.
Recycling News:  One-bin system started, recycled items expand
A new, convenient recycling system has been introduced in Melbourne. The one-sort recycling system allows residents to place recyclables in bins without presorting.

Residents may continue to use any of the three bins for placement at the curb on collection day.
Waste Management, which provides solid waste collection under a contract with the City, also announced an expansion of materials that can be accepted for recycling.

Acceptable materials now include magazines, phone books, paper bags, envelopes (with or without plastic windows), junk mail, catalogs, cereal boxes, newspaper, glossy newspaper inserts, circulars, and milk and juice cartons.

Everything that is currently accepted will continue to be accepted, including aluminum and steel cans; newspapers with inserts; plastic bottles with neck that are marked with numbers 1 through 7; and brown, green and clear glass bottles.

Corrugated cardboard must be deposited in bins at the Melbourne fire stations.
 

Cardboard Drop-Off 

Cardboard RecyclingCorrugated cardboard can be dropped at the dumpsters marked "Cardboard Only" at the locations listed below. Please remove all packaging materials and flatten boxes. Remove any tape, paper, or other materials attached to the box. 

Please DO NOT include waxed, corrugated cardboard, or paperboard boxes such as containers for crackers, cereal, or cookies.

  • Fire Station No. 1 on Eau Gallie Boulevard just west of U.S. 1
  • Fire Station No. 2 at Sarno & Wickham Roads
  • Fire Station No. 5 on University Boulevard east of Babcock Street
  • Fire Station No. 6 at Croton and Lake Washington Roads
  • South of Melbourne Auditorium at Melbourne Library entrance off Fee Avenue


Reporting Litter  

Keep Brevard Beautiful, Inc
. sponsors a telephone hotline, (321) 537-6801, to receive reports of littering by motorists.  An alleged offender will receive a letter from the Brevard County Sheriff's Office with information about the problems associated with littering. 

 

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