Recycling

City Recycling

CWD provides recycling service to Azle residents once a week either Monday, Tuesday or Friday, depending on your address. Residents have the option to choose between 18 gallon bins or 65 gallon carts. New residents contact the city at 817-444-2541 for bin delivery. 

If you would like to use the blue cart for recycling, you will need to complete the form and return to Customer Service. If you wish to use the 18 gallon bin, they are available for pick up at Azle City Hall.

CWD recycle cartPlace recycle carts/bins at curbside by 7 a.m. on collection days to ensure pick-up. However, recyclables cannot be out more than 12 hours prior 18 gal recycle binto collection day. Residents may set out additional materials, such as broken-down corrugated cardboard or newspapers in paper bags or bundles, next to the cart or under the bin. Please do not set paper or cardboard products outside your recycle container if it is raining or rain is forecast.

Do Recycle

  • Aluminum and Steel Cans
  • Junk mail, envelopes, greeting cards
  • Cardboard
  • Magazines / catalogues / newspaper
  • Plastic Bottles and Containers
  • Glass (colored and clear)
  • Cereal and dry food boxes

All Containers Must be Rinsed.

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Do Not Recycle

  • Aluminum foil                                  
  • Aerosol cans
  • Styrofoam including packaging peanuts
  • Ceramic cookware
  • Tissue Paper
  • Plastic bags (Take plastic grocery bags back to the store.)
  • Waxed juice / milk cartons
  • Shredded paper
  • Containers that have been contaminated with food products such as meat cartons and pizza boxes

Do not recycle common household hazardous waste (HHW) in the curbside recycling cart. These items may be taken to the Fort Worth Environmental Collection Center at 6400 Bridge Street. It's open to residents of Fort Worth and participating cities (Azle included) on Thursdays and Fridays from 11 am until 7 pm and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. (and it's free!). The center is closed on city holidays. For more information, call the ECC Information Line at 817-871-5257.

You may also dispose of your HHW at Community Waste Disposal's X-Treme Green Event. These events will be held as part of the city-wide clean ups in the spring and fall each year.

Household hazardous waste includes:

  • Paints, solvents and thinners
  • Pool chemicals
  • Garden fertilizers and pesticides
  • Propane/helium tanks
  • Automobile products and parts

Note: Missed trash / recycling and bulk item collection should be reported to Community Waste Disposal. To speak to Customer Service, please call 972-392-9300, option 2.