Recyclopedia (What to take where & when in and around Meridian Township)

 

Alphabetical Listing... 

 

Summaries

• Ingham County Drop-off Sites (glass, paper, cardboard, boxboard, etc.)

• Clinton County Garbage Guide (includes some Ingham locations)

• Organizations & Communities (such as MSU, Lansing, Ingham, East Lansing, FreeCycle, ReStore, etc.)

• Curbside (for 1-5 unit  households** in Meridian Twp)

• Apartments (multi-family properties with recycling for residents)

• Quick List for Meridian Township & Map

• Meridian Recycling Center/Transfer Station

**No charge for Granger customers.  Call 372-2880 to order a bin, bag-tags (tags cost ~$1.50/pc.), or other services.

 

Alphabetical Listing... 

• Antifreeze (includes waste oil and batteries)  (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Appliances:   Appliance Stores (many will take old appliances    Appliance Recyclers

• Athletic Shoes

• Bags  (under "grocery bags")  (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Batteries & Cell Phones

  • Complete Battery Source (rechargeable, car batteries, lithium, lawn equip,)

  • Batteries Plus

  • Mail-In

    • Battery Solutions

    • Cleanlites

    • Waste Management

  • Battery Factsheet

  • Car Batteries

  • Also, watch for special electronic recycling events in the region.
     

• Bicycles

• Books

• Building Materials (Habitat for Humanity ReStores)

  • ReStore in Lansing   374-6235
  • ReStore in Williamston   655-1872
  • What do they take?
     

• Capital Area Green Map

• Carpet Padding

• CD/DVD/CD Case/VHS Reuse & Recycling (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Christmas Trees

• Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (Service Desk at Home Depot or Ingham Co. Household Haz. Waste collection)

  • Map of sites around Michigan and Video

• Compost

• Computers at Goodwill

  • Goodwill:  Reconnect

  • www.bestbuy.com/recycling

  • Green Computing

  • Also see "Electronics"

• Construction and Demolition (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Cooking Oil (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Christmas Trees (Nancy Moore and Wonch Park in January) 
  (Small fee with Granger or the Meridian Recycling Center).

• Curbside Recycling

• Document Shredding

• Drop-Off Centers

• Electronics

• Eyeglasses

• Fabric

• Flags (contact local American Legion)

• Foam

• FREECYCLE!  (one person's trash is another's treasure....)

  • Lansing
  • Mid-Michigan ReUseIt Network 
  • Okemos

• Household Hazardous Waste  

• Junk Mail

• Light Bulbs  (fluorescent tubes and ballasts)

  • See "Household Hazardous Waste"

  • See (see p 8  here)

  • also see compact fluorescents (CFLs) 

  • Cleanlites Recycling in Mason

  • Broken fluorescent clean-up (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Medicines

• Mercury Thermometers   Click here for locator

• Mercury (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Oil Recycling (used motor oil) (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)  Also see cooking oil.

• Packing Peanuts

• Paint (also try Habitat's ReStore)
  5-point Program for Leftover Paint

• Paper Shredding

• Plastic:  #1- 7  at MSU & Meridian Recycling Center

• Pharmaceutical Waste   Ingham Brochure  (also see Household Haz. Waste and events)  DEQ Flyer

• Phone Book Opt Out

• Plastic Shopping Bags   (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Polystyrene Foam (commonly called Styrofoam™)  locations
  Meridian Recycling Center now takes expanded Polystyrene foam (Styrofoam).  See guidelines at above link-- exception:  foam does NOT have to be in plastic bags.    See www.loosefillpackaging.com for packing peanuts.

• Propane Tanks  (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Rain Water

• Roofing also see C & D waste  (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Sharps  (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Athletic Shoes 

• Special Collections

• Styrofoam (see polystyrene)

• Televisions (see electronics)

• Tires

• Trees & Brush

• Trophies  (uploaded from Ingham 4/12)

• Vinyl siding/PVC 

• Yard "Waste"   New American Yard Factsheet
   

• Additional Resources...

  • Cleaner Choices (less toxic cleaners)

  • Do Less...

  • Do More...

  • Do Not...

  • Ecological Footprint

  • Education Links

  • Home Toxics

  • Local Harvest

  • Lansing Area Localvores

  • Michigan Recycled Materials Market Directory

  • Non-Toxic Alternatives

  • Organizations & Municipal Recycling Options

  • Recycling Slide Show

  • Resources from Lansing

  • Waste Reduction
     

• News

• Organizations

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