Recycling - how you do it

Curbside recycling

Collects from your front door

Every 14 days on your regular trash-day (call Residential Services for schedule)

Just place the materials on the street, seperated by material (glass, newspaper, milk jugs)

Put recyclables in paper bags or cardboard boxes, leave them open so the recyclers can distinguish the recyclables from the other trash.

See curbside section for details

Recycling bins at grocery stores

Collect your recyclables in boxes or bags

Take them with you when you visit one of the grocery stores with recycling bins (see further information section for addresses)

Put your material in the bins

Civic Recycling

Civic Recycling is a company that recycles commercially. Many recyclables can be dropped there that aren't collected by Columbia's waste managment services. Please see the further information section for address

Composting

Various ways of recycling organic materials exist. You can compost on your own, drop the material at Columbia's compost site or mulching places or use it as mulch. See the compost section for detailed information.

List of Recyclables and recycling places

The following table contains a list of recycleable materials, the places to return them and how to treat them before recycling.
The colored fields indicate the places you have to bring the recyclables to:
Curbside Recycling
Drop-off bins at grocery stores
Drop-off at Civic Recycling
No drop-off place unless given in text
Please refer to the further information section for addresses and locations.

Recyclables and Locations

Aluminium foil (pie plates etc.)
Beverage cans (metal)
Bottle caps (metal)
Cardboard egg boxes: compost
Catalogs
Chinese take-out boxes (remove wire handles)
Chipboards (like toilet paper tubes, oatmeal boxes)
Corrugated cardboard, break down to make it flat
Dry cleaners bags

• Most of the Dry Cleaners reuse bags.

• Most laundries and dry cleaners

• Schnucks, 1400 Forum Blvd.
• Gerbes, 1729 W.Broadway or 2900 Paris Road

• Schnucks, 1400 Forum Blvd.

• Mail Boxes Etc., 2101 W.Broadway or Rockbridge Shopping Center
• Mail & More Inc., 307 East Ash Street

• Columbia Photo, 310 N. 10th Street
• CPI One Hour Photo, Columbia Mall
• Fifty Minute Photo, Broadway shopping center
• One Hour Moto Photo, 100 N. Providence Rd.
• Wal-Mart Discount Cities, Biscayne Mall, also accepts plastic film products and metal film canisters