Recycling centers in Killeen

195 Used Auto Parts is a family-owned pull-and-pay yard on State Highway 195 in Killeen with more than 1,400 vehicles spread across a standard yard and a premium yard. Customers bring their own tools and pull their own parts, while the yard lends wheelbarrows, parts carts, and engine hoists free of charge. Every vehicle sits on wheel stands for safe access, and prices are posted in an online part price list. Stanley and the 195 staff donate cars to local fire and police departments for training, give time and parts to the Killeen Career Center for student mechanics, and earned a Certificate of Appreciation from the mayor for clearing and repairing roads after a winter storm.

Cen-Tex Scrap and Metal is the Killeen yard of M. Lipsitz and Company, a scrap business operating since 1895 with 14 locations across Texas and Oklahoma. Walk-ins need no appointment during business hours, and sellers show identification for regulated metals, except aluminum beverage cans. A Texas Department of Agriculture certified truck scale sits on site. The buying list runs from heavy iron, plate and structural steel, pipe, and cars to copper, brass, aluminum, stainless, ACSR, insulated wire, radiators, electric motors, and lead acid batteries. Cars carry fees for tires, coolant, fuel tanks, and batteries left on, and refrigerators and air conditioners arrive with coolant evacuated. The yard runs its own trucks and roll-off boxes and offers scrap programs for multi-location accounts.

The City of Killeen Solid Waste Department runs this recycling center on East Avenue F and takes residents' recyclables at no charge. Accepted materials are paper, newspapers, magazines, and cardboard, number 1 and 2 plastic containers, clear, green, and brown glass bottles and jars, steel, tin, and aluminum cans, cell phones, and rechargeable batteries. The center also collects used cooking oil, and engine, hydraulic, transmission, and gear oil from individuals only, up to 5 gallons per customer. Oil filters and antifreeze are accepted here. A certified public scale weighs most vehicles except large tractor trailer rigs, and a fee applies. Satellite recycling trailers around Killeen supplement the center.

CRC - Centroplex Recycling Center is listed at 2400 E Veterans Memorial Blvd in Killeen as a recycling center and used auto parts business. The directory reports weekday and Saturday hours, with Wednesday and Sunday marked closed.

The City of Killeen Recycling Center on E Avenue F takes paper, cardboard, #1 and #2 plastics, glass bottles and metal cans for free. It also collects used cooking oil, motor oil, oil filters, antifreeze, cell phones and rechargeable batteries, and runs a certified public scale.

A city recycling trailer on the Texas A&M University Central Texas grounds replaced the Clear Creek trailer in May 2025. On weekends and holidays the trailers move to the Killeen Rodeo Grounds.

The E. Rancier Avenue recycling trailer operates Monday through Friday and moves to the Killeen Rodeo Grounds on weekends and holidays. It takes the city's standard free recyclables.

This city of Killeen recycling trailer on S. WS Young Drive takes mixed household recyclables for free. Rinse cans, flatten cardboard and keep glass to clear, green and brown bottles and jars.

The Killeen Transfer Station on SH 195 is a city recycling drop-off point and the alternative the city recommends for former Clear Creek trailer users. It accepts the same free recyclables as the city's other sites.