Surprising recyclables

Thanks to Green Amer­ica for an infor­ma­tive arti­cle about dif­fer­ent items that might not be on your radar for recy­cling. Read on and see if you can help keep these things out of a landfill.

Plas­tic caps: Weisen­bach Recy­cled Prod­ucts will accept clean plas­tic caps from jars, bot­tles, etc. Learn more at capscando.org. They even sell col­lec­tion bar­rels. Located at 437 Holtz­man Ave. in Colum­bus, you can drop off or mail caps in. Gen­er­a­tion Green in Dublin, at 6351 Sawmill Road right next to Trader Joe’s, also accepts clean plas­tic caps. SWACO drop-off loca­tions around Colum­bus also accept caps — the only one in Delaware County is in Lewis Cen­ter at High­banks Metropark.

Brita Pitcher fil­ters: Preserve’s Gimme 5 pro­gram accepts these. You can mail them in, along with any other No. 5 plas­tics you have col­lected (see instruc­tions at preserveproducts.com/recycling) or you can drop them off at the Whole Foods store in Dublin the next time you are down that way.

Small elec­tron­ics and more: The best bet here is Best Buy who will accept many types of TVs, gam­ing sys­tems and even fans and alarm clocks among other things. So before you throw that bro­ken clock radio out, give them a call and see if they will take it. They accept up to three items from each con­sumer per day (so you don’t over­whelm them). Also, there is a fee to take TVs. Learn more at BestBuy.com/recycling.

Fish­ing line: Okay, who knew you could recy­cle this stuff? Gather it up and send it to Berkley Recy­cling and they will turn it into fish habi­tat struc­tures. How cool is that? They are at 1900 18th St., Spirit Lake, IA 51360.

Gift cards and cus­tomer loy­alty cards: Let’s hear it for Best Buy again! They take these as well. There are drop off bins right inside the doors. You can also mail them to Earth­works PVC Recy­cling Pro­gram in Cleve­land (learn more at earthworkssystem.com).

More items and infor­ma­tion next week!

Tues­day Trip­pier lives in Delaware, is a writer and mother of four, and has a spe­cial inter­est in all things “green.”

Posted by Tuesday Trippier on Feb 16 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.