Dianavan, I'd say it depends on where you were in Arizona...its a big place. When I lived in Prescott (kinda between Phoenix and Flagstaff), the city had a very active program that recycled (weekly) everything except ferrous metals and petroleum byproducts. Now we are in Albuquerque, and the city picks up plastics (#1 and #2 only), aluminum, newspaper and cardboard; we have to go to a site about 1/2 mile away to dispose of glass.