Recycling
Recycling in Missouri expands the economy, strengthens our community, and protects our environment. Recycling one ton of...
Aluminum saves 95 percent of the energy used to manufacture virgin aluminum.
Newspaper saves enough energy to heat a home for 6 weeks as well as 7,000 gallons of water and 60 pounds of air pollution.
Plastics saves about 3.85 barrels of oil.
Materials Accepted
- Clean aluminum cans/items
- Clean, dry brown paper bags
- Corrugated, cardboard broken down boxes
- Shoe boxes or waxed bottles
- Clean, dry newspaper
- Clean plastic milk, soda and water bottles
- Clean tin cans
- Empty household cleaning supply bottles
- White office paper
- Magazines
Material No Nos-We do not accept
- Styrofoam
- Electronics (Including Televisions and Computer Monitors)
- Glass
- Broken glass, window glass, light bulbs or baking pans
- Hazardous/toxic materials bottles
- Dirty or wet newspapers
- Slick paper
- Plastic grocery bags
- High Density Plastic (ex. 5-gallon buckets, coolers, children's outdoor play sets, etc.)
- Trash