LEGO City 7991 Recycle Truck

LEGO City set 7991, “Recycle Truck”, depicts a recycling collection truck for an urban setting.

Rather than focusing on emergency response or construction, it represents an everyday service vehicle used for recycling collection. That makes it suitable for streets, residential areas, depots and other ordinary locations in a LEGO city layout.

This identifies a worker wearing an orange jacket with a zipper and reflective stripes, green legs, a black cap and a goatee beard. The build is centered on a City utility truck, with a cab and rear work area suited to the recycling subject.

The model works for both play and display, especially in layouts that need municipal services beyond police, fire or passenger transport. It adds a practical civic role to the traffic environment. Within a City collection, it sits among civilian road vehicles and helps broaden the range of everyday urban functions represented.

Inventory of set 7991

The inventory of set 7991 lists 206 pieces, spare parts excluded: 84 different lots (one shape in one color) for 75 part shapes. The box also contains 9 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 7991

Main color: dark bluish gray, making up 21% of the parts, followed by white (20%) and orange (18%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 7991

71 of the 75 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 7991

One part shape in set 7991 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set.

No similarly sized set supplies more than a quarter of its parts: set 7991 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 7991 within its line

With 206 pieces, set 7991 ranks #366 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 194 sets released in 2007, it ranks #95.