Knoxville East Recycling Drop-off Center

The City of Knoxville’s east recycling drop-off, on Alice Street at the edge of city-owned Chilhowee Park.

Knoxville East Recycling Drop-off Center hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the schedule the city set for its four drop-off centers on March 1, 2026. The bins stand at 210 Alice Street in East Knoxville, the site the city lists as its Chilhowee Park/Magnolia Avenue center.

Serves: Knoxville trash pickup and recycling rules.

About this site

Chilhowee Park is an 81-acre venue the City of Knoxville owns at 3301 E. Magnolia Avenue. Its grounds hold the Tennessee Valley Fair, Zoo Knoxville, a 3-acre lake, a 4,500-seat amphitheater and a 57,100-square-foot exhibition hall, and the city’s own driving directions to the park turn off Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue onto Alice Street. KAT Route 31 Magnolia serves the park. The drop-off keeps its own Alice Street address, separate from the park’s.

Rules at every City of Knoxville drop-off center

North, South, East and West take the same materials under one set of rules: clean, dry and loose in the bins, never bagged. They are the only city sites that take glass. The full lists are in this record’s fields and on the city’s Recycling Drop-Off Centers page ↗.

Type: Recycling and drop-off center
State: Tennessee
City: Knoxville
Address: 210 Alice Street, Knoxville, TN 37914
Hours: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (since March 1, 2026)
Who can use it: Open to the public; recyclables loose in the bins, clean and dry, never bagged
Fees: Free
Takes: Brown, green and clear glass; plastic containers, cups, bottles and jugs marked 1 or 2 with attached caps; aluminum, steel and tin cans; mixed paper, including cartons, paper plates and cups, junk mail, magazines, office paper, soft-cover books, paperboard, paper bags, envelopes and shredded paper secured in paper bags; newspaper with inserts; flattened cardboard
Does not take: Plastic bags and film, Styrofoam, aluminum foil and foil pans, chip and candy wrappers with silver linings, aerosol and paint cans, pet food bags, cords, garden hoses, holiday lights and other tanglers, light bulbs, window glass, windshields, drinking glasses, porcelain and pottery, plastic containers that held pesticides, motor oil or antifreeze, carbon paper and receipts, scrap metal, sharps and other medical waste
Run by: City of Knoxville Waste and Resources Management
Phone: 865-215-4311
Official website: knoxvilletn.gov
Primary source: knoxvilletn.gov
Last verified: September 24, 2026

Questions

Where is the Knoxville East Recycling Drop-off Center?

At 210 Alice Street, Knoxville, TN 37914, in East Knoxville. The city lists it as its Chilhowee Park/Magnolia Avenue center; the park itself, with the Tennessee Valley Fair grounds and Zoo Knoxville, is at 3301 E. Magnolia Avenue.

How do I get to the Knoxville East Recycling Drop-off Center by bus?

KAT Route 31 Magnolia serves Chilhowee Park, the city’s landmark for the East center. By car from downtown, the city’s directions to the park follow Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and turn onto Alice Street.

Where do batteries and bulbs go instead of the Knoxville East Recycling Drop-off Center?

Not into its bins. The city takes lead-acid, lithium and rechargeable batteries, fluorescent tubes and compact fluorescent bulbs free at its facility at 1033 Elm Street; see the Knoxville Household Hazardous Waste Facility.

Sources

City of Knoxville: Recycling Drop-Off Centers: the four centers, their hours since March 1, 2026, the rules and the accepted and refused lists.
City of Knoxville: Chilhowee Park: the park’s address, size, venues, directions and bus route.

Sources and corrections

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