Recycle box

The player accessing the recycle box in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

The recycle box, known as the Recycling Bin prior to Animal Crossing: New Horizons,^[1] is an object in the Animal Crossing series where items appear for the player to take. In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, it appears in Town Hall, and in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it appears in Resident Services.

Appearances

In Wild World and City Folk

The player accessing the Recycling Bin in Animal Crossing: Wild World

In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, the Recycling Bin is located within Town Hall, on the right-hand side. Items, including furniture, clothing, and Gyroids, can appear in the recycle box occasionally; the player can also place items in it. Each Monday and Thursday at 6 AM, the Recycling Bin is emptied.

In New Horizons

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the recycle box is located within the Resident Services building, on the left-hand side. Each day, there is a 45% of an item appearing in the box if there are less than 10 items already inside; items that can appear include three Clay, three Iron Nuggets, a small furniture item, an item of clothing, a flower bag, a Sapling, Cedar Sapling, a wallpaper, or trash. Each of these items has an equal chance of appearing. Of the clothing items that can appear, five can exclusively be obtained from the recycle box. On the day after Gulliver or Gullivarrr visits, a Rusted Part will appear in the recycle box.

Unlike in previous games, items cannot be placed in the recycle box directly. However, any items placed outside will appear in the box if the Cleanup Service is used, and any items within other players' pockets at the end of local co-op multiplayer will also appear. A maximum of 80 items can be stored in the recycle box, though only up to 60 are visible at a time. After the maximum is reached, the oldest items are removed.

Item list

The following items can be obtained exclusively from the recycle box in New Horizons.

Clothing in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

#	Item	Buy price	Sell price	Available from	Style	Label theme(s)
-	[[\|Baggy shirt]]	Not for sale	10 Bells	Recycle box	Simple	Goth / Comfy
-	[[\|Dirty tank top]]	Not for sale	30 Bells	Recycle box	Active Cool	Outdoorsy / Sporty / Work
-	[[\|Ripped doctor's coat]]	Not for sale	135 Bells	Recycle box	Cool Simple	Goth / Work
-	[[\|Torn pants]]	Not for sale	10 Bells	Recycle box	Simple Cool	Goth
-	[[\|Moldy dress]]	Not for sale	10 Bells	Recycle box	Simple	Goth
-	[[\|Shattered glasses]]	Not for sale	10 Bells	Recycle box	Simple Active	Goth
-	[[\|Holey socks]]	Not for sale	10 Bells	Recycle box	Simple	Goth / Comfy

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