From Apr 26, 2008

For some good news…

I’ve decided that I have to recycle in order to really do MY part in averting the madness that has become our daily trash routine.

It’s about time, and I figure NOW is as good a time as any to get started.

Here’s a resource for the recycling of some of the questionable stuff you may not have thought of.

The List of things you can recycle is nearly endless:

• Aerosol cans
• Adhesives
• Aluminum/ Aluminum cans
• Antifreeze
• Appliances
• Asphalt
• Automotive Products
• Automobiles
• Batteries
• Books
• Brass
• Cardboard
• Carpet & Pads
• Cleaners & waxes
• Clothes
• Computers/ printers
• Concrete
• Drums & barrels
• Eyewear
• Flammables
• Fluorescent lighting
• Freon
• Furniture
• Household hazardous waste
• Ink Jet Cartridges
• Magazines/ catalogs
• Mercury
• Motor Oil – used
• Newspaper
• Office Paper
• Oil filters
• Paint
• Pallets
• Poison
• Propane tanks
• Scrap metal
• Thermostats/ Thermometers
• Tires
• Yard waste (branches/leaves/grass/sod)

For the stuff that’s more common, you can easily drop it off at Lakewood Recycling Center. It’s at 1050 Quail St. in Lakewood, CO

They’re open 24/7; paper, recyclable plastic, recyclable metal, recyclable glass… lakewood.org

They make it pretty easy for us newbies. We don’t have to separate any of it– just drop off the following:

• Newspapers, magazines, office paper, junk mail
• Telephone books
• Aluminum, plastic, glass, tin (and more!)
• Cardboard

All of this goes into any one of those dumpsters, and it’s pretty easy to do this. I’m finding things that I would’ve never thought about… like laundry soap containers (I rinsed these out first), face wash bottles, vitamin bottles, shampoo bottles…

Here’s a link for some recycling guidelines for Louisville, CO…

Also, here’s a handy dandy link that gives you a list of things you can recycle, and then it gives you a list of places you can take them to!!!