How to Recycle Just About Anything

By now we have just about all heard the phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", but how about repurpose? Thanks to the internet with sites like Etsy, Freecycle, Craigslist, and eBay, and most cities stepping up their recycling efforts, it has become possible for us to recycle just about anything and everything.

Since I live in Dallas, Texas, the majority of places to recycle I will be mentioning will pertain to the Dallas area. Although most cities have the same type of businesses and city services.

Here is a list of items that can easily be recycled just about anywhere:

1. Tires
2. Refrigerators
3. Washing Machines & Dryers
4. Freezers
5. Television Sets
6. computer Monitors
7. Pallets
8. Tree Limbs & Brush
9. Anything Metal
10. Concrete
11. Furniture
12. books
13. Magazines & Phone books
14. office Paper & cardboard
15. Batteries & car Batteries
16. Baby Clothes & Toys
17. Clothes
18. Sporting Goods
19. Building Materials
20. home Fixtures
21. Toilets
22. Bathtubs
23. Kitchen Cabinets
24. Glass
25. Paint
26. plastic
27. Electronics
28. Fence Boards

First of all, the fastest way to get rid of the majority of these items is to just place and ad in the free section of Craigslist. Just go to Craigslist.com and you can place an ad for free. Another good site is freecycle.com.

1. Tires- Can be dropped off at the City Of Dallas McCommas Location.5500 YOUNGBLOOD; DALLAS, TX 75241. Free for residents of Dallas, they will only take a few at a time.

2. Refrigerators- City Of Dallas McCommas Location. 5500 YOUNGBLOOD; DALLAS, TX 75241. Also can be sold to scrap metal places.

3. Washing Machines & Dryers- City Of Dallas McCommas Location. 5500 YOUNGBLOOD; DALLAS, TX 75241. Also can be sold to scrap metal places.

4. Freezers- City Of Dallas McCommas Location. 5500 YOUNGBLOOD; DALLAS, TX 75241. Also can be sold to scrap metal places.

5. Television Sets- City Of Dallas McCommas Location. 5500 YOUNGBLOOD; DALLAS, TX 75241. Most TV repair shops will take broken flat screens.

6. computer Monitors- City Of Dallas McCommas Location. 5500 YOUNGBLOOD; DALLAS, TX 75241.

7. Pallets- Can be taken to a pallet reclaiming location where most of them manufacture pallets. In most cases they will buy pallets or at least let you drop them off at no charge. Pallets can also be taken to places that make and sell garden mulch.

8. Tree Limbs & Brush- Can also be taken to places that make and sell garden mulch. Most of these places charge to drop off but at least it gets reused. Living Earth Technologies 1901 California Crossing Road, Dallas - (972) 869-4332.

9. Anything Metal- Any kind of metal can be recycled at a scrap metal place, it doesn't just have to be old pieces of plain scrap metal, it can be that old rusty outdoor table and chair set, or metal shelving, ladders, chain link fencing, and any other item that is metal. If the item contains any wood, plastic, rubber, or any other type of material, that will have to be removed before they will take it.

10. Concrete- Southwest Crushing in Mesquite will recycle concrete. Sometimes they are a little picky about the size of the rebar, but they are usually pretty good about taking it. If the rebar is too small, the magnet can't pick it up and it gets tangled up in the crusher.

11. Furniture- I recommend trying Goodwill and Salvation Army. If that doesn't work, next I would try putting on Craigslist for free. Sometimes donation places can be a little picky about what they take, but the general public is usually a little more forgiving.

12. books- Half price books will buy your books, or at least take them at no charge and recycle them.

13. Magazines & Phone Books- Corrugated Services 726 Walnut St Garland TX 75040 972-494-4059.

14. office Paper & cardboard- Corrugated Services 726 Walnut St Garland TX 75040 972-494-4059.

15. Batteries & car Batteries- Best buy has drop off bins in the front of their store where you can drop off cell phone and regular batteries. Scrap metal places and used battery stores will buy your car batteries.

16. Baby Clothes & Toys- Once Upon A Child is a resale shop in Mesquite that buys baby clothes & toys.

17. Clothes- Their are plenty of clothing resale shops that buy clothes and do consignment. Gently Owned & Buffalo Exchange are just a couple.

18. Sporting Goods- Play it again sports is a sporting goods resale shop.

19. Building Materials- Habitat For Humanity accepts building materials donations.

20. home Fixtures- Habitat For Humanity accepts home fixture donations.

21. Toilets- Habitat For Humanity accepts home fixture donations.

22. Bathtubs- Habitat For Humanity accepts home fixture donations.

23. Kitchen Cabinets- Habitat For Humanity accepts home fixture donations.

24. Paint- HOME CHEMICAL collectION CENTER 11234 Plano Road Dallas, Texas 75243 (214) 553-1765. They accept paint, and other cleaners, and chemicals.

25. plastic- plastic Recycling Center 9704 State Hwy 276 Royse City, Texas 75189 Phone: (972) 635-2322. They accept certain types of plastic. check their website for specifics.

27. Electronics- Erecycler Llc 11067 Petal St Dallas Tx 75238 PHONE: (972) 487-6800

28. Fence Boards- Living Earth Technologies 1901 California Crossing Road, Dallas - (972) 869-4332

Another way is to have a garage sale or load it all up and go get a spot at a flea market for the weekend. For a 10 X 25 size vendor spot at Canton, it's only $40 for the whole weekend.

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Recycle Wastes and Make Good Money

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Recycling of wastes is a profit oriented business; the process involves transforming unusable and discarded materials into new inevitable household or industrial mundane support. This is a key factor for modern waste management. Disused products from polyethylene such as nylon and plastics can be recycled for this good money making venture.

Waste products for recycling business can be gotten from different places including the dustbins either from homes, industries and dump sites as well as packaged water sachets and treated by removing any cello-tape, metal, sand and other impurities from them.

To start a small scale polyethylene recycling business requires at least about US$65,000 and a plot of land while up to US$325,000 is normally required to start on a larger scale. About 15 staff should be envisaged for the small scale business while between 30 and 50 workers may be needed for a large factory.

Major raw materials can also be sourced from packaged water factories and also from jobless young people who pick waste nylons and plastics from the streets and sell them to recycling factories. A standard processing enterprise for the process should have some basic machinery which must include a treatment plant, grinding machine, an extruder and a crusher depending on the intended production capacity.

A small scale recycling plant can produce an average of 2 tonnes of products per day while a large one can come out with a minimum of 5 tonnes daily. The price of the recycled materials depends on its density and for the high one; this is sold for a few cents per kilogram during the dry season and much more during the rainy season.

Low density of white semi-finished products are sold for about US$1.05 per kilogram while a tonne is sold for about US$725.00 Plastic waste materials can be converted into drinking straws, aprons, plastic covers, cups, plates, slippers, pipes, gift items, files, table mats etc....In most cases, the recycled semi-finished products are normally packaged in 25 and 40 kilogram laminated bags to avoid water penetration and there is also the possibility of other packages in accordance with the prospective buyers specification.

In Nigeria, foreigners mostly Chinese are at the forefront of this business. What they do is to buy the semi-finished materials from recycling factories and convert them to finished products this is because they have all the necessary processing machinery and equipments. From the look of things, the polythene industry will continue to remain inexhaustible while there are areas that operators are yet to exploit to the fullest.

Although many people see it as a dirty job, waste products recycling business can be a form of poverty alleviation strategy because it is quite a very profitable venture. One of the major problems confronting the business in Nigeria, however, is erratic electric power supply and provision of alternative sources is no child's play. This is a very important area of employment creation to which the policy makers in the Ministry of Labor and Productivity should direct their energy and ensure that people, particularly the young ones and unemployed graduates are sensitized to it in order to reduce the rate of prevailing poverty in the land particularly in these days of very biting global economic meltdown.

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