By measuring the capture rate in recycling bins — the blue bins — the City can focus on how much material is recovered from each household for recycling rather than going into the landfill. To learn more about the City's recycling program and what is accepted, visit the City's website.
Increase residential recycling capture rate to 75% (75% by 2030)
Year | Value | Margin of Error |
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2020 | 48% | |
2021 | 47% | |
2022 | 46% | |
2023 | 45% |
Recycle Bin Recapture Rate
City of San Antonio, Solid Waste Department
San Antonio
The capture rate measures how much recyclable material is being recovered based on how much of this material is in the waste stream. It is calculated by dividing the tons recovered from the recycling bin—the blue bin—by the total tons collected for all material.
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020