The Harker Heights Drop-Off Center and Recycling Facility is at 1761 FM 2410, and it runs on a subscription rather than a per-visit charge — an unusual model that works out very cheaply for anyone who uses it more than occasionally.

The recycling drop center costs residents $2.00 a month. That is the minimum fee and effectively the whole fee: two dollars a month buys ongoing access rather than a single trip.

Brush and bulky drop-off is free for residents, but it comes with limits worth reading before you load. The cap is 4 cubic yards, and two loads per day. A full-size pickup bed is roughly 2 to 2.5 cubic yards, so a heaped trailer can exceed the limit in one go.

The accepted list is wide for a recycling site: plastic, aluminum cans, paper, flattened cardboard, scrap metal, brush, and bulky household items and appliances. Two entries are genuinely unusual — tires are accepted with or without rims, which most sites will not do, and used cooking oil is taken as its own stream.

Cardboard must be flattened. That is not a formality; unflattened boxes fill the containers several times faster and sites that specify it tend to enforce it.

The turn-away list is where this facility draws a hard line. Motor oil is refused, despite cooking oil being accepted. Construction and demolition debris — rock, dirt, concrete and brick — is out. So are commercial or contractor loads, dump-truck loads, and overloaded trailers.

Checked against the City of Harker Heights recycling drop center page on 27 June 2026.