What the work involves, what it pays, and grounded tasks, skills, tools, and experience you can choose from.
Also called recycle coordinator, waste reduction coordinator, agency operator and corporate recycling manager.
$62,840
Median pay a year
633,400
People do this work
6
Resume lines ready for you
Real figures for this work, and lines you can use in your own resume. Where they come from is at the foot of this page.
An example
A Recycling Coordinator resume, filled in
Common skills that can help you remember what you used on the job.
Planning recycling programs
Developing program goals
Recording delivery details
Directing transport activities
Directing material handling
Reviewing customer information
Investigating organizational crimes
Inspecting facilities
Planning work operations
Operating packing or material processing
Operating vehicles or moving equipment
Explaining procedures
Every line comes from the same public record as the rest of this page. The greyed parts are the ones only you can answer.
Recycling Coordinator
Summary
Recycling coordinator supervising curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms, managing operations, training staff, and ensuring compliance with community rules
Experience
Recycling Coordinator
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Oversaw recycling pick-up and drop-off programs to follow community rules
Maintained logs of recycling materials received or sent to processing companies
Supervised recycling technicians and community service workers in recycling operations
Reviewed customer requests for service to decide on service needs and resources
Provided training to recycling technicians on safety and recycling operations
Operated recycling processing equipment like sorters and balers to process materials
Coordinated recycling collection schedules to improve service and efficiency
Skills
Checking & Planning
Planning recycling programs, Developing program goals, Inspecting facilities, Planning work operations
Leading & Coordinating
Directing transport activities, Directing material handling
Core Skills
Reviewing customer information, Investigating organizational crimes, Recording delivery details, Operating packing or material processing
Education
High School Diploma Your school, Year
Yours will not say this. You choose what matches your experience, and every line remains yours to confirm or change.
Nothing to write from scratch
What to put on a Recycling Coordinator resume
Real duties for this job, already written the way a resume reads. Inside Rung you choose the ones that were yours.
What did you do each day?
Choose what fits, or say your own.
Oversaw recycling pick-up programsKept logs of recycling materialsSupervised recycling technicians and workersReviewed customer service requestsProvided training on recycling topicsIdentified new recycling opportunities
becomes
On your resume
Oversaw recycling pick-up programs, ensuring compliance with community ordinances and efficient operations.
Supervised recycling technicians and workers, providing training on recycling topics and improving team performance.
These are written the way a resume line reads. Rung asks which ones are actually yours, keeps your own words, and never claims work you did not do.
Then it asks for one more thing
The line that could show more, and the fact that lands it.
Make it stronger
A few lines could show more. Each one is asked, and answered by choosing.
Add how often you oversaw these programs.
The line
Oversaw weekly recycling pick-up programs for multiple neighborhoods, ensuring compliance with community ordinances and efficient operations
Add how often you oversaw these programs.
Pick one that fits
Every week for multiple neighborhoodsSeveral times a month across the cityDaily for all community pick-up routes
Or add your own.
In your wordsAdd it
Adding it to the line…
Added to your resume
Show what improved because you trained the team.
The line
Supervised recycling technicians and workers, providing training on recycling topics and improving team performance.
Show what improved because you trained the team.
Pick one that fits
Team completed tasks more efficientlyFewer safety incidents occurredQuality of recycling increased significantly
Or add your own.
In your wordsAdd it
Adding it to the line…
Added to your resume
Every ready answer is in plain words, never a figure. Nothing is invented to fill a gap.
The work itself
What a Recycling Coordinator does
The public record of what this job is, in one paragraph.
Supervise curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms.
What it pays
How much does a Recycling Coordinator make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$50,070
Median
$62,840
75th percentile
$78,170
These figures cover this work together with First-Line Supervisor of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators and First-Line Supervisor of Passenger Attendants, which is how they are published.
About 633,400 people do this work and First-Line Supervisor of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators and First-Line Supervisor of Passenger Attendants in the United States, counted together.
What you can already claim as a Recycling Coordinator
Below are the tasks a Recycling Coordinator job is made of. Choose the ones you have really done. There is no wrong answer here, and you can change any of it later.
Which of these tasks have you actually done?
4 chosen. Rung never adds a task you did not choose.
You can already claim 4 of the 9 tasks this job is made of.
What you have not done yet. Monitoring work environment, Inspecting facilities, Inspecting material-moving equipment
Your resume, already started
Recycling Coordinator
Planning work operations
Resolving personnel problems
Recommending personnel decisions
Monitoring loading processes
Nothing here was invented. Every line is something you chose above, and it comes with you when you start.
Free resume help
Start with this job
Choose what matches your experience. Rung shapes your confirmed choices into a resume you control, saved on your own device.
A resume that is yours to keep
You leave with a PDF and a Word file, and a cover letter if you want one.
Nothing to pay when you download, no account, and the resume saves to your own device.
Every line offered comes from public job data, not a template.
Nothing to write from scratch: the lines are ready, and you choose the ones that were yours.
This page is about the occupation Recycling Coordinators. What this job involves and what it is made of come from O*NET 30.3, the US Department of Labor's occupation database, refreshed July 2026; Rung writes those records into the plain sentences you see. Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS release for 2025. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.