Port St. Lucie pauses recycling pickup service, so Waste Pro can handle garbage collection

All items left curbside at people’s homes, including material in recycling carts, will be collected like trash on regular trash collection days. Curbside recycling will be restored when normal service levels of garbage collection resume and remain consistent. Until the new waste hauler begins in September, Waste Pro will continue to pick up residents’ garbage on normal collection days.

During this temporary pause, residents can hold their recyclables or utilize the City’s Voluntary Drop-off Site and the St. Lucie County Solid Waste Baling & Recycling Facility to drop off recyclable materials for free. Please bring empty and clean materials to:

• Port St. Lucie’s free Voluntary Drop-off Site behind the green, fenced-in area, just west of Florida’s Turnpike overpass at the corner of Cameo Boulevard and Crosstown Parkway. This collection site will be available to Port St. Lucie residents, seven days a week, from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., until further notice.

• St. Lucie County Solid Waste Baling & Recycling Facility, 6120 Glades Cut-Off Road, Fort Pierce, FL 34981. This collection site is available to St. Lucie County residents, six days a week, Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Beginning in September, FCC Environmental Services Florida, LLC will be Port St. Lucie’s new solid waste collection hauler. Garbage, recycling and yard waste will be collected once a week on a designated day. Bulky waste will be collected once a month on a designated day. The new solid waste collection schedule will be announced to residents by mid-August 2022.