Municipal Recycling Drop-Off Locations for Automotive and Household Materials

A list of drop-off locations for recycling waste oil, oil filters, tires, automotive batteries, metal scrap, aluminum cans, tin cans, glass, plastic, and various papers. The dataset is provided by the City of Austin and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Map drop-off locations for specific materials like waste oil, tires, or automotive batteries to optimize municipal recycling networks.
• Analyze the geographic distribution of facilities accepting materials such as metal scrap, glass, and plastic to identify service gaps.
• Build a public-facing application that filters locations by accepted materials like corrugated boxes, newspapers, and aluminum cans.

Strengths

• Managed by the authoritative City of Austin organization.
• Covers a diverse range of over ten specific recyclable material types.
• Last updated in March 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Unknown total number of location records (rows).
• No column schema or sample data is provided for structural validation.
• Geographic coverage is implied to be Austin, but exact spatial bounds are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

City of Austin

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

Updated March 2026.

Geography

Austin, Texas (implied)