Tag:amenity=recycling

amenity = recycling
Description
A container or centre that accepts waste for recycling.
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Group: waste processing
Used on these elements
Requires
recycling_type=*
Useful combination
operator=* ref=*
Status: approved
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Recycling is used for a container or centre that accepts waste for recycling, and donations of used goods.

This tag is for sites where waste of specific types is accepted to be reused or recycled - if the site is for disposing of arbitrary waste, consider a different tag as listed under Waste Processing.

How to map

Draw a node or an area and add amenity=recycling + recycling_type=*.

Recycling type

• recycling_type=centre - a recycling centre for collecting a wider range of recyclable household materials.
• recycling_type=container - a recycling container or group of them.
• recycling_type=container + location=underground - an underfloor-container.
• amenity=vending_machine + vending=bottle_return for all machines that accept bottles, cans and crates which return.

Example photos

• 

  Recycling container
  recycling_type=container

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  Underground container
  recycling_type=container
  location=underground

• 

  Recycling centre
  recycling_type=centre

• 

  Recycling bin
  recycling_type=bin

Tags used in combination

• operator=* - responsible organization
• opening_hours=* - opening hours of the centre or usage period of a container
• capacity=* - the total capacity of a container in m³

Accepted types of waste

• Most recycling sites only accept specific types of waste. recycling:*=* is therefore used to list all materials you're allowed to recycle or donate. Please expand this list.
• Use material=* to describe the material of the container itself.
• Adding one or more types of waste with yes implies that all other types are considered not accepted.
• Adding a more general type or category of waste (e.g. recycling:scrap_metal=yes) implies that more specific types of waste within that category (e.g. recycling:aluminium) are also accepted.

Tag	Description	Count
recycling:aerosol_cans	Home and DIY (etc.) aerosol cans (e.g., hairspray, spray paint, etc.)
recycling:aluminium
recycling:aluminium_cans
recycling:animal_waste
recycling:asbestos
recycling:bags	All kinds of bags.
recycling:batteries	Household batteries (e.g. D-cell, 9-volt). Does not imply larger batteries are accepted, see recycling:car_batteries.
recycling:belts	All belts related to clothing.
recycling:beverage_cartons	Carton package (multi-materials, e.g. Tetra Pak) for drink and food – possible duplicate of more frequently used recycling:cartons.
recycling:bicycles
recycling:boats
recycling:books	Donation of books
recycling:bottles	Ambiguous – should be re-surveyed and likely replaced with recycling:glass_bottles and/or recycling:plastic_bottles.
recycling:cans	Many places are tagged as accepting cans without recycling:metal in general
recycling:car_batteries	Some facilities will take household batteries (recycling:batteries) but not car batteries
recycling:cardboard	In about 90% cases of recycling:cardboard=yes it duplicates recycling:paper=yes
recycling:cartons	Paper based cartons (for drink or food). Likely to be data of low value due to mixing paper cartons, multi-material cartons like Tetra Pak by various mappers.
recycling:cds	Compact discs and DVDs
recycling:chipboard
recycling:christmas_trees	Place where old Christmas trees are collected, use with opening_hours=Jan 01-Jan 15 or so.
recycling:clothes=*	Donation of clothes, including shoes (e.g. Humana and others)
recycling:coffee_capsules	Shows if recycling facilities take coffee capsules
recycling:compost
recycling:computers=*
recycling:cooking_oil
recycling:cork
recycling:diapers
recycling:drugs	Expired drugs. Container available generally in pharmacies.
recycling:electrical_appliances
recycling:electrical_items	Larger electrical items like fridges, freezers, dishwashers, etc. (See also recycling:white_goods, which tends to mean fridges, freezers, washing machines, dishwashers, ovens in British English; we'd probably choose recycling:electrical_items or recycling:small_appliances for appliances like TVs, vacuum cleaners, microwaves and anything smaller).
recycling:electronics
recycling:engine_oil
recycling:fire_extinguishers=*	recharging (refueling) of fire extinguishers
recycling:fluorescent_tubes
recycling:foil	Kitchen foil/tin foil
recycling:food	A community fridge to help reduce food waste. See also the proposed tag amenity=food_sharing.
recycling:food_waste	Cooked and uncooked food, such fruit and vegetables including peelings, rice and bread, meat and fish, dairy, tea bags and coffee grounds. In places where all organic (biodegradable) waste is collected together, this is effectively a rare synonym for recycling:green_waste=*, but in places where garden waste and food waste are collected separately, this tag is more precise.
recycling:furniture	Pieces of furniture or furnishings
recycling:garden_waste	Garden waste such as flowers, plants, grass clippings, leaves, twigs and small branches. In areas where all organic (biodegradable) waste is collected together, this is effectively a rarer duplicate of recycling:green_waste=*. Differences, if any, will vary across mappers and location. If garden waste and food waste are collected separately, this tag is more precise.
recycling:gas_bottles	Pressurized gas bottles such as those for camping propane and butane. These are often prohibited elsewhere (See Coleman's Green Key program).
recycling:glass	Implies recycling:glass_bottles=yes, but there's no standard yet for indicating which of the trickier types (drinking glasses, window glass, light bulb glass, tempered glass, borosilicate glass, Pyrex) are accepted. Note that recycling containers labelled glass often are supposed to be used for solely soda–lime glass, what excludes nearly all "tricky" glass and should be tagged with recycling:glass_bottles rather than this. It is often quite hidden in recommendations or regulations that actually just bottles and jars are allowed. For example borosilicate glass (sold under brand names such as Pyrex, Borosil, Duran) or other glasses are excluded, in effect excluding glassware, lighting bulbs, window glass, mirrors, spectacles, reagent bottles and more.
recycling:glass_bottles	Includes jars but not any of the trickier types listed under recycling:glass.
recycling:glass_bottles:colour	Semi-colon separated values of the colour(s) accepted. Suggested values include: "mixed", "clear", "green" (often also includes blue) and "brown". Note the use of "white" is likely a mistranslation and should only be used for truly white opaque glass.
recycling:glass_jars	Probably effectively a duplicate of recycling:glass_bottles.
recycling:green_waste=*	Compost - leftover food, vegetables, fruit, usually except meat. In practice it also includes recycling:garden_waste. Differences, if any, will vary across mappers and location.
recycling:hardcore	Possible duplicate of more frequently used recycling:rubble.
recycling:hazardous_waste	Common house hold hazardous waste (paints, chemicals, asbestos).
recycling:hydrargyrum
recycling:light_bulbs
recycling:low_energy_bulbs
recycling:magazines	Over 90% of uses repeats recycling:paper=yes, but some places are tagged as allowing newspapers without allowing paper.
recycling:marine_waste
recycling:metal	All sorts of metal – possible duplicate of more frequently used recycling:scrap_metal; see below.
recycling:metal_packaging
recycling:mobile_phones=*
recycling:newspaper	Over 90% of uses repeats recycling:paper=yes, but some places are tagged as allowing newspapers without allowing paper
recycling:oil
recycling:operator	A mistaken tag that isn't actually a recyclable material – should be replaced with plain operator=*.
recycling:organic	Organic remains of food that are recycled into biogas or compost. Assuming that this tag definition was intended this tag is likely to change meaning, as nothing in its value excludes organic non-food trash.
recycling:organic_waste	See the more used recycling:organic=*.
recycling:others
recycling:packaging
recycling:paint
recycling:pallets	Wooden shipping pallets
recycling:paper	In some cases more specific tags may be needed if only specific form of paper needs to be recycled. See recycling:paper_packaging, recycling:cardboard, recycling:magazines and recycling:newspapers for more specific alternatives.
recycling:paper_packaging	Over 90% of uses repeats recycling:paper=yes, but some places are tagged as allowing paper packagings without allowing paper
recycling:pens	Writing instruments, usually plastic pens
recycling:PET=*	All kind of material made of polyethylene terephthalate (abbr. PET or PETE, recycling code 1). Please use recycling:pet_drink_bottles if only PET drink bottles are allowed.
recycling:pet_drink_bottles=*	PET beverage bottles only
recycling:plasterboard	This usually includes all loose plaster, based on Gypsum
recycling:plastic	In the UK at least, often centres/containers will distinguish between (broadly) hard plastics (typically ones that shatter), soft plastics (typically bendy food packaging; black food plastic may be an exception), carrier bags, and all other stretchy plastics. Many will accept only a subset of these, so try to pick more specific categories if you can.
recycling:plastic_bags
recycling:plastic_bottle_caps=*	recycling:plastic_bottle_tops=* has the same meaning, but plastic_bottle_caps is more popular
recycling:plastic_bottle_tops=*	See more at recycling:plastic_bottle_tops=* - note that plastic_bottle_caps is more popular
recycling:plastic_bottles	Often they allow bottles but not other plastic items! There is significant number (over 6k as of September 2019) places tagged as accepting plastic bottles, without accepting broader plastics. There is also over 5k of location where recycling:plastic_bottles=yes duplicates recycling:plastic=yes, as of September 2019
recycling:plastic_caps	Bottle tops made out of plastic, note that tag name does not include "bottle" part - and such places do not accept caps from say engine oil containers. Duplicate of recycling:plastic_bottle_tops=*
recycling:plastic_packaging	Other packaging made out of plastic. There are a significant number (over 4,000 as of September 2019) of places tagged as accepting plastic packaging, without accepting broader plastics. There are also over 4,000 locations where recycling:plastic_packaging=yes duplicates recycling:plastic=yes, as of September 2019
recycling:pmd=*	Plastic packaging, metal packaging, drink cartons; combined household packaging, glass and paper excluded. Common way of collecting in The Netherlands and Belgium.
recycling:polyester
recycling:polystyrene_foam	Polystyrene foam. Can be styrofoam, generic extruded polystyrene foam, or generic expanded polystyrene foam.
recycling:printer_cartridges	See recycling:printer_inkjet_cartridges or recycling:printer_toner_cartridges for more specific restrictions, since not all centres accept both ink and toner (e.g. Ross on Wye).
recycling:printer_inkjet_cartridges
recycling:printer_toner_cartridges
recycling:refund_bottles
recycling:refund_bottle_crates
recycling:rubble	Bricks and building rubble; see also recycling:hardcore.
recycling:scrap_metal
recycling:second_hand
recycling:sheet_metal
recycling:shoes=*
recycling:small_appliances
recycling:small_electrical_appliances	Small electrical items such as computer mice, keyboards, electric razors, pocket radios, hair dryers, irons, electric kettles, small quantities of electric cables, etc.
recycling:small_metal	Small metal parts such as screws, chains, nails, cutlery
recycling:styrofoam	Typically refers to expanded styrofoam, such as styrofoam box or packing material
recycling:tetrapak
recycling:textiles
recycling:toys
recycling:tv_monitor
recycling:tyres
recycling:verre	Likely a duplicate of recycling:glass or a similar tag (verre is French for glass). Note that tags should be in (British) English.
recycling:waste	General waste container (black bags) (don't use this if the waste is not recycled, use a tag like amenity=waste_disposal or amenity=waste_basket instead)
recycling:waste_oil
recycling:white_goods	In British English this only means fridges, freezers, washing machines, dishwashers, ovens; see also recycling:electrical_items and recycling:small_appliances, which might be better suited for appliances like TVs, vacuum cleaners, microwaves and anything smaller)
recycling:wood

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Tag	Icon
recycling:glass_bottles=yes
recycling:paper=yes
recycling:glass=yes
recycling:clothes=yes
recycling:shoes=yes
recycling:green_waste=yes
recycling:paper_packaging=yes
recycling:newspaper=yes
recycling:magazines=yes
recycling:books=yes
recycling:cartons=yes
recycling:beverage_cartons=yes
recycling:organic=yes
recycling:tetrapak=yes
recycling:tyres=yes
recycling:toys=yes
recycling:verre=yes
recycling:bags=yes

Possible tagging mistakes

recycling:operator=*

More details at taginfo

• recycling:operator=*

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

recycling_type=organic

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More details at taginfo

• recycling_type=organic

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

recycling_type=compost

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More details at taginfo

• recycling_type=compost

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

recycling_type=glass

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More details at taginfo

• recycling_type=glass

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

Related tags

• amenity=waste_basket: A single small container for depositing garbage that is easily accessible for pedestrians.
• amenity=waste_disposal: A medium size disposal bin, typically for bagged up household or industrial waste. May be in the street, but not primarily for use by passing pedestrians.
• amenity=waste_transfer_station: A location that accepts, consolidates and transfers waste in bulk, usually from government or commercial collections.
• landuse=landfill: A site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.
• shop=second_hand: A shop that sells second-hand products, possible collected through donation containers.

See also

• Recycling quality assurance
• Waste Processing - Page describing all tags related to waste management.
• WikiProject CircularEconomy - A page explaining how to describe all circular economy: second_hand shop, re-use, container, compost, public bookcase, shop without packaging, self repair workshop...
• Household waste in the United Kingdom - details on how waste disposal is handled and mapped specifically in the UK

References

Related terms: ‹ recycling › ‹ recover › ‹ salvage ›