Garbage and recycling

The 2026 City of Galena recycling magnets are now available at Galena City Hall, 101 Green St. The magnets are free for residents. 

The City of Galena is reminding residents that plastic bags are not recyclable through the curbside collection program. Avoid placing recyclable items in plastic bags -- garbage bags, grocery bags, etc. -- in the curbside collection cart. Montgomery Trucking will not pick up recycling in any sort of plastic bag. 

Plastic bags can be dropped off for recycling at Tammy's Piggly Wiggly and Walmart in Galena. 

GALENA­­—Since January 2020, when the City of Galena instituted its glass recycling program, more than 688,180 pounds of glass have been collected in the purple glass recycling dumpster in the parking lot of Tammy’s Piggly Wiggly. Since glass is not accepted in the city’s curbside recycling program, the city partners...