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I live in a small town with really minimal recycling centers. Where can i go to find better recylcing centers? Is there a directory?

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Try this site. Also, when I was growing up, we had 3 bins in out garage. One for paper/cardboard, one for aluminum, and one for glass. They were big industrial sized trash cans... then about once a month we took them to the recycle center.

Now KCMO had curbside, so it's even easier in Kansas City!

Quoting sweetgreenthing:

I live in a small town with really minimal recycling centers. Where can i go to find better recylcing centers? Is there a directory?

We are fortunate to have a place called the Exchange in our community, which is behind the recycle center.  You can take clothing, furniture, housewares, whatever is reusable and clean and nice, and leave it there...all covered areas with portable covers like Costo sells....and if you need something, like a vase, flannel shirt to paint in, or a bicycle, flower pots, garden tool, castor, towel rack...you name it, you can look there!  It is the thing to do on weekends...take the recycling in, and have a walk around the exchange.  They take donations, nothing is priced, and it is all volunteer labor.  Very organized and neat, and lots of fun, lots of work.  Good idea!

We live in an "up and coming" suburb.   Once was "po'dunk farm town", now taken over by developers and subdivisions.   The recycling program they have down here is WAAAAAAAAY behind.   With the population boom that has hit this area, they need to figure out a new plan.

I have the list posted on the Fridge for what they take vs. what they don't .    What they DON'T outweighs dramatically what they do.  IT'S PATHETIC.
But that's TX for ya...  what do they care?

Anyways.   Being that we are Recycling NAZI's and are SICK of having to throw away recyclables such as  CARDBOARD, MAGAZINES, SLICK ADS, SHAMPOO BOTTLES, etc etc etc.... we googled up some recycling centers in and around Austin TX.   Here we found a few independent centers that take practically everything that this local recycling center does NOT TAKE.

So, we recycle the minimal in our town, and then start up a collection that we drop off at this other center in Austin every week or every 2 weeks.   It feels good to only throw out 2-3 bags of garbage a week as opposed to 6+

Not to mention in and around the area there are paper recycling bins set out in front of schools, churches, business, that actually generate a charitable profit to that organization just for having the recycling bin (looks like a small dumpster) on their property.    So that's another incentive to just take our paper goods to those dumpsters.  Especially because they take magazines and slick ads.

When you switch your little ones from the bottle to the sippy, you can recycle the old bottles!

freecycle.org


Is a group with Yahoo, you can post ad or respond to ads for free stuff. Keep tons of stuff out of the landfills! "One mans junk is another's mans treasures", everything, printers, phones, clothes, toy, dishes, knickknacks, furniture.......

There is a website funding factory they recycle all old ink cartrideges  books and old cells and in return you get funds and prizes for the school of your choice.  fundingfactory.com check it out.

Send  ~ E-mail cards instead of real, when you can there are free ones !
                                  
Use a toaster oven for small jobs, it willuse a third to half as much energy as full size oven.

 Out of a book "It's Easy Being Green."

Check out Cell Phones for Soldiers.  It is a great way to recycle & your old unused/broken, cell phones & accesories can be used for charity too.
http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/

Hi!
I'm all the way over in Portland Oregon but I just started volunteering for a local hospital that will destroy and recycle used, damaged, expired, and unwanted Car Seats and Bicycle Helmets.  There are frequent drop off EVENTS and drop off's can also be scheduled by appointment if any one is interested!  The next Car Seat and Bicycle Helmet recycling event is part of a Healthy Kids Fair SAT 6-14-08 from 10am - 2pm
@ Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital.  2211 NE 139th St.  Vancouver, WA call (360) 487-1000 for more info or visit http://www.legacyhealth.org/body.cfm?id=2072