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Municipal · Drop-off · Free

Carr Center and Ridge Road drop-off

Two city drop-off sites, one east, one west, taking recycling year round, computers and phones at Carr Center, and household chemicals on the first Friday of each month.

Right for you if

  • It is a computer, a chemical, or recycling you cannot put at the kerb, and you can time the first Friday.
  • It has to cost nothing.
  • You can get it there under your own steam.
  • You want to turn up without booking.

Look elsewhere if

  • You have no way of getting it there.
  • You live outside the area it serves.
  • It is business waste.
  • It is more than a household quantity.
  • It is construction or demolition waste.

Contact and booking

Phone
(216) 664-3711 or 311
Email
Not published
Book online
Not published
Address
Carr Center, 5600 Carnegie Ave, Cleveland OH 44103 (east) · Ridge Road Transfer Station, 3727 Ridge Rd, Cleveland OH 44144 (west)
Opening hours
Carr Center: Monday to Friday, 9:00am–3:00pm. Ridge Road: Monday to Saturday, 9:00am–3:00pm. Household hazardous waste at both sites on the first Friday of the month only.
Website
Official website

Verification

Verified against an official source

Last checked 18 August 2026

That means we read a published source and it said this. It does not mean we watched them do it, or followed the material afterwards, that is a separate, deeper check this has not been through. How we check →

Sources

Part of How to get rid of stuff in Cleveland.

Something wrong here?

Why use it

Three things worth knowing before you drive over. Household hazardous waste is only taken on the FIRST FRIDAY of the month, at both sites, turn up on the wrong day and nobody can help you. Latex paint is not accepted at all: the city's line is that it is not hazardous, and it needs drying out with an absorbent before it goes in the ordinary bin. And televisions are not part of the computer drop-off, a TV goes out with the monthly bulk collection instead, while computers and phones go to Carr Center year round. Construction and demolition waste is refused everywhere: concrete, wood, brick, drywall, shingles, siding, toilets and sinks. Worth knowing the wider Ohio position too: unlike North Carolina or Wisconsin, this state has no landfill ban on electronics, so binning a television is legal here even though recycling it is better.

Good for

  • electronics
  • hazardous waste
  • batteries
  • other items

How it works

How you use it You take it there.
Cost No fee is published for residents. The city does not use the word "free" on these pages, so neither do we.
Booking No appointment needed.
Service area City of Cleveland
Run by City of Cleveland Division of Waste Collection and Disposal, a municipal service

Where your things go

A named destination is worth more than a stated intention, and both are worth more than silence. This is the row to read before you book: if your item's row is empty, ask them on the phone and tell us what they say.

Not documented yet. This operator has not published what happens to each kind of item, and we have not been able to establish it from anywhere else. That is the gap, stated rather than hidden. If you ask them, tell us what they say.

Does it actually work

The part no company website tells you. Some of this comes from our checks, some from readers who used the service, and where nobody has told us yet, it says so.

  • Booking

    Their pages

    No appointment needed.

  • Typical wait

    Needs reports

    Not established

    Nobody has told us how long they waited. Two reader reports would settle it.

  • Do they answer

    Needs reports

    Not established

    We read their pages, we did not phone them. One reader who got through would settle it.

  • Restrictions

    Their pages

    Residents only · Households only · Household quantities only · No construction waste

  • Who it's for

    Their pages

    People who live in the area it serves, households, not businesses.

  • Last checked

    Pipeline

    18 August 2026

    Checked against the sources listed on this page.

What happens to it

  • Recycled
  • Broken down for materials
  • Disposed of

This describes the route the item takes, as the operator states it. We do not claim a recovery rate we have not seen evidence for.

What readers told us

Used them recently?

How long you waited, what they refused, whether anyone picked up the phone. Those are the three facts no website publishes and the ones the next reader needs.

Tell us what happened

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