Recycling in Austin
Austin has plenty of services available when it comes to recycling, but little is known of these services outside of the basic cans and bottles recycling. This blog is to help inform you of services available in a straight-forward post, a format I wish the city’s marketing people could handle.
goods packaged in recyclable packaging!
To obtain one or more standard blue city recycling bins, visit an Austin fire station (see locations) with a recent utility bill. If you choose to use a different bin (paper bags or boxes that will be taken with your recycling or your own tub that will be left with you), you will will not be charged extra like you are with trash!
Cans, Bottles, & Jars
Put them in your blue bin! Accepted materials: Glass bottles & jars, metal cans (like soup & tuna cans), aerosol cans, and plastic labeled with #1 or #2. Notice that the paper milk-jugs are not on these lists. If you have a choice, consider recyclable plastic jugs instead.
Paper Recycling
The City of Austin will take your paper in a separate blue in or separate container such as a paper bag. We use a blue bin we purchased ourselves that fits nicely into a convenient closet and thus, into our lives. The best type of bin is the type that you’ll use. Accepted types of paper: newspaper, circulars, office paper, notebook paper, junk mail, stationary, envelopes, magazines, catalogs, sticky notes.
Sensitive Documents
Corrugated Cardboard
Note that the non-corrugated cardboard (think cereal box) is not accepted. Corrugated cardboard is one of the easiest materials to recycle and there is a large market for recycled cardboard. To get the city to haul it for you, break it down and cut it down into manageable bundles tied with twine (or placed into a smaller box) measuring no more than 2 feet x 2 feet.
“Yard-trimming” Brush
Grass, leaves, and small branches can be placed out with your recycling. The city will turn this into “Dillo Dirt” to fertalize soil around Austin including the soil at parks like Zilker. Some Austinites choose to compost their own brush for use in gardening. This is really only practical for those who use compost so if you don’t use it, let the city use it.
Large Brush, Tree Branches
Large branches (over 3 inches in diameter and up to 15 feet long) are collected during specially-scheduled large brush collections and are also used for dillo dirt. Watch for a card in the mail with your schedule or call (512) 494-9400.
Computers & Other Household Electronics
Components off electronics can be recycled including gold!
Drop off at one of these locations:
- Axcess Technologies
4801 Freidrich Lane, Building 1, Suite 100
Austin, Texas 78744
512-441-1100
Contact: Mr. Bryan Frazar
www.axcesstech.net - Computers for Kids
2928 Manor Road
Austin, Texas 78722
512-294-1158
Contact: Mr. Perce “Putty” Collins - CTG Environmental
PO Box 200151
Austin, TX 78720-0151
512-657-5681
Contact: Mr. Garland Luedecke - Earth Protection Services, Inc. (EPSI)
3916 Gattis School Road, Ste. 112
Round Rock, TX 78664
512-251-4691 - Electronic Recycling & Trading
6106 Baldwin Dr.
Austin, TX 78724
512-927-2300
FAX 512-927-2312
www.ertinc.net - EncompassIT L.L.C.
P.O. Box 80028
Austin, TX 78708
1-800-658-7607
www.encompassit.net
corporate@encompassIT.net - FITS Computer Recycling
Steve Sussman
281-450-0508
www.FITS2000.com - Goodwill Industries of Central Texas
1015 Norwood Park Blvd.
Austin, TX 78753
512-637-7100
www.austingoodwill.org - Harris Distribution Group, LLC.
119 N. 19th St.
Temple, TX 76504
Office: 254-773-3011
FAX 254-773-3067
www.hdg-llc.com
www.stores.ebay.com/harrisdistributiongroup - Image Microsystems, Inc.
9800 Metric, Suite 300
Austin, TX 78758
Contact: Jim Rollins
512-751-8442
www.imagemicrosystems.com - In Cycle Electronics
3739 Drossett Dr.
Austin, Texas 78744
512-617-7300 - Reconnect (a partnership between Dell and Goodwill)
www.reconnectpartnership.com - Round2 Technologies, Inc.
6301 E. Stassney Lane, Suite 400
Austin, TX 78744
Contact: Scott Williams
512-342-8855
www.round2tech.com - Vadico
15301 Connie St.
Austin, TX 78728
512-844-8131
Contact: Mr. Herman Von Hapsburg
Car & Household Batteries
These do not belong in the landfill! Automotive stores and stores that sell batteries can help you dispose of these or the city will take them at the Household Hazardous Waste Facility (see below).
Motor Oil, Paint, & Other Hazardous Materials
You pollute the earth if you dump or throw these out. The City of Austin has the Household Hazardous Waste Facility that will take these items in reasonably limited quantities FOR FREE.
Hours:Map:
Resources:
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/default.htm
http://earth911.org/
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[…] Make use of those paper bags you bring home from the grocery store. I know you mean to bring your own totes, but they aren’t always handy. Find a place to line a few up based on the materials that you would like to recycle but curbside does not take. Maybe this is in the garage, pantry, or on the back porch (if you don’t have nosy dogs!). Make it a convenient place but keep it out of sight so that you won’t feel the need to “clean it up” later. Designate one for styrophome, one for No. 3+ plastics, one for electronics, one for batteries. If you have kids, you can involve them by having them decorate the bags and labeling them. This can really help them get into recycling. When the bags fill (or you have an opportunity), take the materials to other recycling centers like the one at 7th & I-35 or Goodwill for electronics (see more at Recycling in Austin). […]