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Recycling Guide

  • First: All kinds of papers.
  • Second: Cans and bottles that have been rinsed.
  • Third: Biodegradables, such as fruit peels and vegetables that can be used as organic composite.
  • Fourth: Non-recyclables.

Welcome to Costa Rica Recycling!

Our Objective: A cleaner and more conscious Costa Rica.

We want to try and help achieve a greater consciousness about the need to RECYCLE in each and every one of us- Costa Ricans in every home, workplace, University, school, restaurant, etc. By achieving the necessary consciousness and concern for our environment, we can put into practice a recycling project: merely a project today, one that will become a true Costa Rican value in the future.

Costa Rica Recycling: For A Clean Costa Rica, for a Promising Future

Why Recycling...?

Recycling has become one of the most important activities that is helping to create a solution, in part, for the problems caused by the millions of tons of solid waste produced daily by human beings around the world. It produces less impact and harm on the environment. It throws less garbage in public sites or common spaces, and produces less gas contaminants, improving the quality of not only those places, but also of the air we breathe.

Reducing Garbage - YES! It is Possible - Costa Rica Recycling

Every day, at 5:30am, I go out for my morning walk. All along Rohrmoser Boulevard I am accompanied by the cold, the wind, and a large garbage bag typically used for gardening.

Every day during my walk, which averages to about 45 minutes, I gather plastic bottles, cans, aluminum cans, and cardboard boxes with my oversized garbage bag.

From Banco Uno, ascending toward Rohrmoser Boulevard, passing by the Teletica Channel 7 and down toward the wide streets of Pavas, every day I collect a bag full of the recyclable products mentioned above. I calculate that that bag usually weighs about 2 Kg(4.4 Lbs.), maybe more.

Friendly Products

Mobius Loop

This indicates whether the product can be recycled.

Tidyman Symbol

Implies that you should dispose of the product carefully, do not litter.

Green Dot

Indicates the recovery of packaging material in some countries has been paid for.