Residents and businesses can now fill their recycling carts with even more material. Yogurt containers, fruit and pudding cups as well as butter, sour cream and whipped topping tubs can now go into recycling carts with other bottles, cans, cardboard and paper.

"As a leader in recycling, Rumpke recycles more than one billion pounds of material annually,” said Steve Sargent, Rumpke’s Director of Recycling. “There has been a lot of recent innovations in plastic recycling that are allowing for this expansion of our acceptable items list.”

Like with other items accepted in Rumpke’s recycling programs, Rumpke has secured long-term contracts with stable, regional end users for this material that will convert the material into new plastic containers.  Currently, 95% of Rumpke’s collected recyclables go to domestic end users, with the vast majority destined for end users in Ohio and the Midwest.

Also driving the change is a grant from the Recycling Partnership’s Polypropylene Recycling Coalition that is aiding Rumpke with the installation of new equipment at its Cincinnati recycling center to help sort tubs from other recyclables. 

Cincinnati residents and businesses can now recycle:

·      Plastic bottles, jugs and tubs (butter, sour cream, cottage cheese tubs as well as yogurt and fruit and yogurt cups)

·      Cartons

·      Glass bottles and jars (any color)

·      Aluminum and steel cans

·      Paper, paper board (cereal boxes, 12-pack containers, mail, etc.) and cardboard

All items should be clean, empty and placed in recycling containers loose to ensure they can be properly sorted and recycled. For more information on the new plastic tub addition, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions tab.