The City of Yankton RiverCity Recycle Collection Service is a Curbside Recycling Service with a Drop-off Recycling facility provided to the public through the cooperative effort of communities and counties in Southeastern South Dakota. The facility and programs are available to the public and businesses located in Clay and Yankton Counties and portions of Union County and are operated through the Vermillion / Yankton Joint Solid Waste Authority.

There is no charge to drop-off recyclable materials. The recycling program is supported through the sale of the materials. Please enter by the west door.

All of the following recyclable items can be picked up curbside at your residence if living within the Yankton City limits. Anyone may recycle these items by dropping them off at the Yankton Transfer Station Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. at no charge! Grass clippings are also accepted at the Transfer Station during regular hours and on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. during the summer also at no charge.

Waste Oil can also be taken to the City of Yankton Transfer Station during regular business hours. Used batteries can be dropped of at the Battery Exchange (West on Old Hwy 50), Yankton Metals & Hedahls Parts Plus.

Plastic #1 & #2 - Throw caps away and remove all contents. Please empty your pop bottles, we can't drink the contents and the liquid is a problem at the recycling center. By the way, peanut butter must be cleaned out. On the bottom of most plastics, you will find the recycling chasing arrows and a number from 1 to 7. We recycle only the # 1 and #2. At the Recycling Center, we ask you to separate the # 1 (mostly pop bottles) from the #2 Natural (translucent milk jugs) and the #2 Color (laundry detergent, white milk jugs, etc.). #1 & #2 plastics can also be dropped off in the plastics bin at the southeast end of the Kmart parking lot.

Tin Cans - Clean and remove labels. Remove ends when possible, place into a can with one end on and flatten open end. We really do not want the cat food. If a label is difficult to remove we will accept.

Aluminum Cans & Foil - Clean and dry. When you are fishing, please do not put the lead weights in your pop cans; when you are smoking or eating candy, please do not put the butts and wrappers in your pop cans. We cannot sell aluminum when contaminated with lead, butts, or paper.

Newspaper

Loose, no string, rubber bands, or bags. You may include the slicks and advertising inside the paper. Paper egg cartons accepted.

Magazines, Catalogues & Slicks

Loose, no string, rubber bands, or bags. Glossy paged magazines only.

Corrugated Cardboard

Layered cardboard and brown paper sacks only. No waxed or shiny-coated boxes (no beer or cereal boxes). Brown paper sacks are accepted.  Cardboard boxes should be broken down and cut to no larger than 3' x 3' pieces.

Computer & White Paper

Bond, ledger & letterhead OK. No colored paper. No Rubber bands, paper clips, plastic binders, ream wrap, or carbon paper.

Mixed Office & Pastel Paper

Pastel paper, file folder, junk mail including window envelopes, advertising. No rubber bands, paper clips, plastic binders, ream wrap, and no deep bright colored paper. No manila envelopes.

Shredded Office Paper

Clear bags preferred. No carbon, glossy slick, intense or bright colored paper. Shredded ledger should not contain window envelopes and shredded paper may not contain magazines or newspaper.

The following materials cannot be recycled. The paper you recycle is sold to mills that grind up the material into pulp and then make the pulp into new paper.  The materials listed below are considered contamination because they will not mix into the new product and can destroy thousands of tons of new recycled paper. The Missouri Valley Recycling  personnel in the Vermillion facility sort all paper that comes through the facility. Many hours are spent taking out the following materials. We cannot sell the paper to market if it contains any of the following materials. Please help us.

Metal changes at Transfer Station

With the sale of Jensen's Scrap Metal to Yankton Metals, certain items will no longer be accepted. The Yankton Transfer Station asks for the publics help in following these guidelines set up by Yankton Metals when disposing of any items at the Transfer Station.

The following items are NOT ACCEPTABLE AS SCRAP at the Yankton Transfer Station:

            1. BATTERIES*

            2. FLOURESCENT LIGHT BALLAST

            3. ELECTRIC CAPACITORS

            4. SEALED CONTAINER of any kind

            5. PROPANE OR BUTANE cylinders

*BATTERIES- Can be recycled at Wal-Mart, Bomgaars, Battery Exchange and Hedahls Parts Plus.

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The following are ACCEPTABLE under the following conditions:

1. All WHITE GOODS:   Must be free of electric motors and capacitors.
2. REFRIGERATION APPLIANCES:   Must be properly drained of freon, free of compressors, capacitors and electric motors.
3. AEROSOL CANS:   Must have a visible hole and be free of any fluids.
4. 55 GALLON AND OTHER SIZE BARRELS:   Must have one end cutout and free of material (liquid, powder, tar, etc.)

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY MATERIAL.

THESE RULES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR ENVIRONMENT.