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