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