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Nogales is the seat of Santa Cruz County on the Arizona-Mexico border, and county solid waste facilities are the main public recycling option for households. Free residential recycling is available at Rio Rico Landfill, Sonoita/Elgin Landfill, and the Tubac/Amado Transfer Station, but glass and mixed paper are no longer accepted anywhere in that system. Commercial volumes need a separate call before arrival.
Santa Cruz County provides no-cost residential recycling at Rio Rico Landfill, Sonoita/Elgin Landfill, and the Tubac/Amado Transfer Station. None of those sites accept large commercial or manufacturing loads. Call 520-375-7830 about commercial volumes.
County guidance lists new recycling hours at Rio Rico Landfill as Thursday through Saturday, 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Confirm the current schedule before a long haul, because facility days have changed before.
No. Glass is on the county's list of materials no longer recycled at any solid waste site, along with newspaper, magazines, office paper, junk mail, and mixed paper. Keep those out of the green or blue recycling containers.
Aluminum cans and foil, cardboard, plastic soda and shampoo bottles plus milk or water jugs, and steel or tin food cans. Do not include plastic tubs or pails. Flatten cardboard and cut it to about 3 feet by 3 feet, and keep Styrofoam and bubble wrap out.
County facilities accept cell phones, computers, keyboards, printers, and TVs as electronic components. Rio Rico and Sonoita sites also list computers and related equipment stacked on pallets, plus batteries, paint, solvents, antifreeze, motor oil, and residential tires under posted rules.
At Rio Rico and Sonoita, the first 5 residential tires without rims are free. Additional tires without rims are $150 per ton, and every tire with a rim is $5. Business tire loads are not part of that residential offer.
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