Recycling / Reuse

Clean your closets, garage and attic and bring the following reusable items (clean and in good condition) to the one day drop-off collection event. Give unwanted items new life, including bicycles, smart phones, books, clothing, eye glasses, pet products, knitting supplies and blankets. While you’re here, visit the compost fair (pre-registration required), the New Leash on Life Mobile Animal Shelter, secure document shredding (two box limit per household) and get to operate a recycling truck! Free.

Info: Melinda Haggerty, 972-941-5294

In order to promote the newly placed recycling containers at our Ferguson Road location, we are hosting a Recycling Kick Off Event. The Dallas Waste Diversion Team’s award-winning mascot Romeo, as well as Resource One Credit Union’s mascot, Roary the Lion will be present handing out freebies and taking photos. There will also be a ribbon cutting ceremony. Local residents are welcome to bring all of their recycling items to the event. The recycling containers will remain at this location going forward. 

There will also be a truck present for Goodwill donations. 

Texas Recycles Day event hosted by Keep Carrollton Beautiful .

The following items will be collected. Check back for more too:

Yarn – collecting for the Senior Center who knits hats and mittens for nearby hospitals

Car Batteries – Firestone – they will accept tires at their location too

Light Bulbs and regular batteries – don’t let these go to landfill

Electronics – all electronics will be collected and recycled – TVs smaller than 21 inches.

Books – CFBISD annual book sale

Clothes and shoes – Clothes Closets

Goodwill will be on hand to collect things that don’t fall into the above categories

Would your group like to collect something that our citizens have…….let us know and we will set up a table for you to collect.

Info: cathsphr@verizon.net, or visit keepcarrolltonbeautiful.org

PAPER SHRED-A-THON 

Snappy Salads, the first eco-friendly salad restaurant in Dallas, will recycle all electronic items (anything with an on/off switch) dropped off at any of the following six locations at the times listed:

            Snappy Salads Locations recycling 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

5915 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX, 75230

320 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080

6550 N. MacArthur Blvd, Irving TX 75039

Snappy Salads Locations recycling 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

5930 W. Park Blvd., Plano, TX, 75093

5941 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX, 75206

2175 E. Southlake Blvd, Southlake TX 76092

Specific items that can be recycled include: computers, televisions, monitors, laptops, cell phones, VCRs, stereos, copiers, printers, video games, fax machines, calculators, as well as small appliances and batteries.  

Snappy Salads is relying on the expertise of Recycle Revolution, a local Dallas company, to coordinate the recycling of the collected items using the e-Stewards certification program (http://www.e-stewards.org/certification-overview/).

An interactive discussion about taking our waste reduction policies beyond the current, well-established curbside recycling programs with the goal of eventually reducing, reusing, recycling and composting 90 percent of our overall waste. That's what people mean when they say "zero waste" and that's what all communities should strive for. Arlington and other DFW cities can take the lead.

Zac Trahan, Texas Campaign for the Environment's DFW director, was home schooled as a child in the Hill Country outside Austin. His deep connection with and respect for the natural world has only strengthened since joining TCE in the fall of 2002. Zac has worked in all three TCE offices and was the Houston Program Director from 2008-2011. He believes our common problems call for collaborative solutions and that protecting our future means protecting our shared surroundings.

If it runs on electriciity, bring it in. Accepting: computers, keyboards, mice, printers, rechargeable batteries, CDs and VHS tapes, cell phones, PDAs, flat screen monitors. Kitchen appliances, washers and dryers, light fixtures, fans, digital cameras, fitness equipment.

Tube TVs ($10 fee)

Info: 214-860-8564.

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Monthly gathering of green-minded folk.

Accepting electronics, sporting goods, toys, multimedia, books and clothing. All accepted items. Sorry, no old TVs or old computer monitors (CRTs). There is no charge to drop off electronics or household items. 

New this year: a shred truck for on-site destruction of your documents! We are charging $5 per box of documents to offset the cost and to help send our youth on their next mission trip. 

Info: Cindy Engel at 214-348-6835 or cindita_e@yahoo.com

Residents with a residential Arlington Water Utilities account can attend a “Make a Rain Barrel” class at EcoFest Arlington and leave with their very own rain barrel. The reduced fee covers the cost of the 55-gallon rain barrel and materials.

Register today to learn how to design and install a rainwater harvesting system at your home. A total of 125 rain barrels will be given away and there is a limit of one rain barrel per residence. $10 for Arlington residents. $40 for nonresidents if space available.

Info: Dustan Compton at dustan.compton@arlingtontx.gov or 817-459-6628.