What I Recycle
Recycling Offered by My Apartment Complex in Denver
Plastic containers, #1 and #2, but no lids
Glass bottles and jars and metal lids
Cans, all kinds, and lids
Aluminum foil
Milk cartons
Office paper
Magazines
Light cardboard
Corrugated cardboard
Recycling at the Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials (CHARM, Boulder, CO)
Electronics of all kinds, including cell phones
Plastic bags (clean and dry)
Large #2 plastic (laundry baskets, for example)
Styrofoam blocks for packing
Scrap metal
Clothing and other fabrics and shoes (but no underpants!)
Books
Compostables (corn-plastic packaging, food waste, compostable plates and flatware): I’m not taking this in as of January 2012, because I have limited space to store it. I’m looking into options for composting in Denver. Unfortunately, my apartment does not qualify for Denver’s pilot composting program.
Construction Reuse (via Craigslist)
Cabinets from our old kitchen
Countertops from our old kitchen
Other Recycling
CDs and DVDs and VHS tapes and cassettes (at Green Disk)
Styrofoam peanuts (take to UPS Store or compost)
Plastic pots for plants (at Echter’s Garden Center)
Toilets (at a now-closed store in Boulder; if I have any more porcelain to get rid of, I’ll take it to the CHARM)
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
It’t important to note that corn-plastic packaging and compostable plates and flatware should not be put in the compost pile if you are an organic gardener.
Bill Brikiatis recently posted..Composting Compostable Packaging
Bill, I usually take such things to Eco-Cycle’s Center for Hard to Recycle Materials, and Eco-Cycle takes it to a composting center of some sort. I don’t put them in my compost pile because they don’t break down fast enough in my little compost pile. But you seem to be warning against some kind of contamination. What are you referring to?
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