Recycling

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Downtown Bham Recycling Center Temporarily Suspends Glass Recycling

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Our longtime glass recycling partner, Argos (formerly LaFarge NA), is no longer able to accept glass from the Downtown Birmingham Recycling Center. Due to chemistry changes in their raw materials, glass cannot be used as an aggregate for their cement manufacturing for the near future. As a result, we are no longer able to accept glass for recycling at the Recycling Center until further notice. 

 
HOW YOU CAN HELP: This whole setup was created out of a citizen making some connections and we hope that might happen again this time! Options could be: 1) another local industrial facility that could use glass in their process; 2) transportation company willing to haul glass to Atlanta to the closest recycler; 3) someone in Birmingham area with warehouse or paved surface and loading equipment that can help transfer from roll-off bins to trailers for transport.
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Birmingham E-waste Recycling Day - Between Linn Park & City Hall (5/09/13)

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In honor of Keep America Beautiful's annual Great American Clean-up campaign, the Keep Birmingham Beautiful Commission will host an event to allow citizens to recycle their electronic waste for FREE! This event is open to everyone.

Accepted items include:

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Recycle Alabama Day - Downtown Birmingham Recycling Center (4/13/13)

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In celebration of Earth Month, Recycle Alabama Day is an opportunity to recycle some hard-to-recycle items, such as hot water heaters, refrigerators, televisions, textiles, and baby car seats. There will also be a mobile paper shredder on-site to provide free document destruction.

For more information, call our office at 205-322-3126, ext. 102. 

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Clothes, footwear, hats, bags, gloves, belts, scarves, bedding (sheets, comforters, pillow cases, blankets), towels, drapes, etc. are accepted. Please seal in plastic bag before dropping off.

Think Outside the Bin: What To Do With Hard-to-Recycle Items

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Source: RecycleYourMat.com

If you’re reading this, chances are you are well aware of where to recycle the more common household consumer goods, such as paper, bottles, and cans. In my last blog entry, we explored how to recycle hazardous materials. For this second installment, we’re going to take a look at some rather uncommonly recycled items. Some of these items are so difficult to recycle that there are few businesses in the nation that have stepped up to the challenge. Click on the underlined hyperlinks to be directed to these resources.

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Recycle Alabama Bins Distributed 9/12 in Downtown Birmingham

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The Keep Birmingham Beautiful Commission (KBBC) is sponsoring a recycle bin distribution day for residents, living in the City of Birmingham, to use for weekly curbside recycling pickup on Wednesdays. Curbside recycling is only available for those single-family dwellings that have their garbage picked up weekly by the City of Birmingham Department of Public Works (DPW).

Distribution will take place Wednesday, September 12th, from 8AM to 12PM, between City Hall and Linn Park on Short Twentieth Street. Residential information will be collected and placed in the DPW Recycling Collection database.

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