VERY IMPORTANT!
UPDATE ON AUSTIN’S RECYLING
CENTER!
On a recent trip to
the Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center, I discovered that you have to deposit
your hazardous materials at one drive-through drop-off point, leave the facility, re-enter, and take
your electronics to another drive-through area.
This is a problem if you are there on a
Saturday when there are many cars waiting in line to get in. This discourages the citizens of
Austin from using the Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center.
GOOD NEWS!
The Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center
has just made a change in their procedure for Saturday. On Saturdays, you can now drop
off hazardous materials AND small electronics in the hazardous waste drop-off
location so that you don’t have to leave and re-enter the center. You still
have to leave and re-enter the center to drop off large electronics like TV’s.
Kudos
to the staff at the Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center for listening to my
concerns and coming up with a solution. Here is the link to their website https://www.austintexas.gov/dropoff.
RECYCLING ON THE ROAD
On a recent road
trip, it became very apparent to me that recycling collection bins are often
non-existent. Many gas stations (where we clean the trash out of our car when
we stop for gas) don’t have recycling collection bins. In addition, there is no recycling collection
at any of the State rest or picnic areas in Texas.
What to do??
As we were having lunch at a rest stop near Abilene, I looked at
our aluminum drink cans, looked at the trashcan, and had to make a decision -
throw them away or hang on to them for the week we would be traveling. I knew
these cans wouldn’t be going into my landfill, but I just couldn’t throw them
into another community’s garbage dump.
So, a decision was made. We set up a recycling collection bag in
the car and a box in the cabin we rented.
At the end of our trip, we brought a week's worth of recyclables back to
Austin and put them into our single stream recycling bin.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST TO THIS BLOG ANY RECYCLING
QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. I WILL
RESEARCH YOUR QUESTIONS AND POST THE ANSWERS.
