Hard-To Recycle Center
ARVADA

💵 💲Fee

• $1.50/each

✅ Yes

• All types of road and mountain bike tires and tubes
  

💵 💲Fee

• $0.50/each

✅ Yes

• All types of cassette tapes and their cases

• Leave tapes in original cases with paper inserts if possible
  

💵 💲Fee

• $0.25/each

✅ Yes

• CDs and DVDs of any type

• Music, movies, software, burned disks, etc

• Broken and scratched disks OK

• Plastic cases and paper inserts included in fee

• Please leave disks in original cases with paper inserts if possible
  

💵 💲Fee

• One 5-gallon bucket is covered under our "$5 bundle fee"

• Each additional 5-gallon bucket is a $5 fee

• Limit 2 buckets (please call ahead with larger load requests)

✅ Yes

• Food scraps

• Non-recyclable paper products

• Small houseplants and flower bouquets

❌ NO

• Plastics

• Biodegradable bags

• Branches/bushes

• Rocks

• Grass

• Animal waste

• Kitty litter

• Glass, foil, metal
  

💵 💲Fee

• $2/each

✅ Yes

• Items must be filled with at least 50% down (down is not the same as feathers)

• Items must have a tag that lists fill as at least 50% down

• We accept:

• down jackets / vests

• down comforters

• down mattress toppers

• down sleeping bags

❌ NO

• Bed bug infested materials or materials with signs of blood on them

• Wet/saturated materials

• Mold or mildew

• Materials with bodily fluid stains

• Poly filled sleeping bads, pillows or jackets

• Down alternative materials

• Materials containing feathers (feathers are not the same as down)

LIMIT: 10 CRT's per customer per day

💵 💲Fee

• Computers, laptops, cell phones, tablets: FREE

• Mixed e-waste: $0.40/lb

• Screens: $0.59/lb

• Smoke alarms: $16/each

✅ Yes

• Mixed electronics

• Flat screen TV's and monitors

• CRT screens and monitors

❌ NO

• Batteries

• Light bulbs

• Oil, gas

• Freon

• Hazardous waste

• Broken CRT screens

💵 💲Fee

• $0.25/each

✅ Yes

• Computer disks of all types
  

• Floppy disks

• Zip disks

💵 💲Fee

• $0.59/lb

✅ Yes

• In tact printer ink and toner cartridges

❌ NO

• Broken cartridges

• Toner TUBES

• Containers holding ink

• Ink/toner refill cartridges

• Extra ink or ink refills

💵 💲Fee

• Mattresses: $30/each

• Box springs: $30/each

• Mattress toppers: $15

✅ Yes

• Mattresses and box springs of any size

• Wood/spring mattresses

• Foam mattresses

• Futon mattresses

❌ NO

• Mattresses with mold or mildew

• Wet items

• Mattresses with blood, urine or other bodily fluids

• Mattresses with bed bugs or signs of bed bugs

• Waterbeds

• Mechanical beds

• Bed or futon frames

LIMIT: 30 containers per customer per day

💵 💲Fee

• $0.50/container handling fee

✅ Yes

• Interior & exterior paints: Latex, acrylic, water-based, alkyd, oil-based, enamel (including textured coatings)

• Deck coatings, floor paints

• Primers, sealers, undercoaters

• Stains

• Shellacs, lacquers, varnishes, urethanes (single component)

• Waterproofing concrete/masonry/wood sealers & repellents (not tar or bitumen-based)

• Metal coatings, rust preventatives

• Field & lawn paints

❌ NO

• Paint thinners

• mineral spirits

• solvents

• aerosol paints (spray cans)

• auto & marine paints

• caulk

• epoxies

• glues, adhesives

• paint additives

• colorants, tints

• resins

• wood preservatives (containing pesticides)

• roof patch & repair

• asphalt

• tar & bitumen-based products

• 2-component coatings

• deck cleaners

• traffic & road marking paints

• industrial maintenance (IM) coatings

• Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) paints & finishes

💵 💲Fee

• $0.10/each

✅ Yes

• Soft, plastic single use straws of any color

❌ NO

• Hard plastic straws

• Glass straws

• Paper straws

• Curly straws

• Metal straws (these can be recycled in our small metal items category)

• Reusable straws of any type

💵 💲Fee

• $14/each

✅ Yes

• Photoelectric & ionazation alarms

• Combo smoke detector / CO2 alarms

• Must be in tact with outer plastic cases - do not remove front piece

❌ NO

• Incomplete alarms

• Parts / pieces of alarms

💵 💲Fee

• $0.50/each

✅ Yes

• EMPTY toothpaste tubes and attached caps

• EMPTY plastic floss containers of any brand

❌ NO

• Tubes with toothpaste inside

• Containers with floss inside

💵 💲Fee

• One 1-gallon bucket is covered under our "$5 bundle fee"

• Each additional 1-gallon bucket is a fee of $5

• Limit 5 gallons

✅ Yes

• Vegetable oils

• Peanut

• Soybean

• Olive

• Canola

• Corn

❌ NO

• Mineral oil

• Motor oil

• Bacon grease

• Pieces of food / solid fats

💵 💲Fee

• $0.25/each

✅ Yes

• VHS tapes and the plastic or paperboard cases

❌ NO

• Stickers and labels must be removed from the tapes in order to be recycled

• Plastic parts with stickers will not be able to be recycled

💵 💲Fee

• $5/each

✅ Yes

• Carbon water filters of any type

❌ NO

• Air filters

• Furnace filters

💵 💲Fee

• $0.10/each

✅ Yes

• Pens, markers, permanent markers, highlighters, wooden pencils, mechanical pencils

❌ NO

• Paint brushes or other art supplies