Huge thanks to the many of you who dutifully bag and bundle your newspapers, plastic bottles, magazines, aluminum cans, paper, catalogs, metal, etc. for the ECC “drain the landfills, fill coffers” project.
Please continue to save your recyclables. Please contact the church office if you would like to schedule a pick-up for recycled items. Click on the link above or call: (602) 266-4602. You may also bring your recyclables to church with you Sunday morning.
A note on how you bundle and bag: you no longer need to place your newspapers in paper bags – plastic grocery bags are fine if that is easier. Also, I save (depending on its condition) every tall kitchen or garbage bag that you send your cans and bottles in. If you would like to reuse any of these bags, please let me know and I would be thrilled to get them to you.
This is what we can recycle and trade for cash to help our church.
Aluminum cans – these guys are super easy and a real cash cow.
Plastic beverage containers – these are a little more complicated. We will only be paid for beverage containers. Olive oil bottles, soap dispensers, takeout containers, etc. are great for City recycling but the recycling dealers do not pay cash to non-commercial “customers” – that’s us. Also, labels and lids are great. Lids make bottles easier to smash and add a little weight. Labels supply info that some dealers are looking for.
Metal – almost all metal is good metal. Cat food cans that are nonferrous (won’t stick to a magnet) and coated on the inside with a plastic-looking substance can go in City recycling but scrap yards won’t buy them. Most other metal is fantastic.
Items containing metal – any appliance (large or small), any electronic device, most tools, anything with a motor, all these items have metal in them somewhere and I’m just the gal to find it. Bring me a dead coffee maker or can opener and I’m giddy as a schoolgirl.
Cords – electrical, telephonic, data, computer, Christmas lights, Romex are all fantastic. We simply can never have too many cord$ to recycle.
Newspapers – just that, newspapers and newsprint. We do not recycle junk mail, printer paper, and cardboard, those go in City recycling.
Magazines and catalogs – some calendars are ok, basically any “slick” magazine like paper.
Again, many thanks for your efforts, you are friends of the Earth and your church.