City of Manchester Curbside Program
This program accepts #1 plastic (pete) for residential pickup.
This program accepts plastic bottles that have been rinsed clean with the lids removed. Only narrow necked plastic bottles are accepted. Please cut plastic bottles in half if they are larger than one gallon in size. You do not need to remove labels.
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Plastic Bottles
Plastic bottles and wide-mouth containers are constantly around us, from your bathroom cabinet to every fast food joint in town. They are also a valuable part of most U.S. communities’ recycling stream as PET (#1) and HDPE (#2) make up 96 percent of all plastic bottles produced in the U.S. The first PET bottle was recycled in 1977. Since then, plastic bottle recycling has increased to more than 2.4 billion pounds annually . Today, more than 80 percent of communities collect plastic bottles while nearly 30 percent of the 100 largest U.S. cities collected wide mouth plastic containers for recycling in 2007.
