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Reuse and Recycling Opportunities
A list of commercial recyclers which may provide service to businesses, institutions, and nonprofit organizations in the City St. Louis.
(Also available as a downloadable PDF or Word document)

*Attention Landlords*
Have your tenants moved on, but left things behind? Rather than simply trashing everything, consider donating useful materials to one of the many local charities that tend to those in need.
Charities That Pick Up Donations
      PDF flyer     Word document

Buy Recycled!

  • Reused and Recycled Office Supplies
    A list of retailers providing a wide variety of recycled office supplies.
    (Also available as a downloadable PDF or Word document)
  • Recycled Content Premium and Promotional Products
    A list of vendors providing a variety of post-consumer recycled content premium and promotional products.
    (Available now as a downloadable PDF or Word document)
  • Recycled Content Recycling Bins
    A list of vendors providing post-consumer recycled content recycling bins in a variety of shapes and sizes.
    (Available now as a downloadable PDF or Word document)

    Reduce Food Waste

  • Missouri Revised Statutes, Chapter 192, Department of Health and Senior Services, Section 192.081, Donation of Canned or Perishable Food
    Web Site http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/c100-199/1920000081.htm
  • St. Louis Area Foodbank
    Web Site http://stlfoodbank.org/howyoucanhelp.html
  • Operation Food Search
    Web Site http://www.ofsearch.org/how_help/food_donation.html

    Reuse and Recycling of Construction and Demolition Waste

  • Armstrong Ceiling Tile Recycling Program
    If you use Ceiling Supply as your supplier, they will pick up pallets of used ceiling tiles.
    If you purchase ceiling tiles through another source, you may drop off used ceiling tiles at 120 Boulder Industrial Drive in Bridgeton. To schedule an appointment to drop off used ceiling tile, please contact Ms. Lydia Oswald at Ceiling Supply at 314.739.6800.
    For details on what is acceptable and non-acceptable, as well as how to package the ceiling tiles, see "Requirements for Recycling Ceiling Tile" downloadable PDF
  • Eco Recycling, Inc.
    Phone 314.862.3335
    6515 Page, Pagedale, Missouri
    Materials accepted: asphalt and concrete (which can be mixed together), brick (which needs to be separated).
  • recycle archHabitat for Humanity St. Louis' ReStore www.habitatstl.org/restore
    An outlet for donating or purchasing new or used building and construction materials.
  • ReSource St. Louis www.resourcestlouis.org
    Promoting the reduction, reuse, and recycling of construction and demolition materials.
  • St. Louis Composting, Inc. http://www.stlcompost.com
    Their Millstadt, Illinois facility accepts clean, construction drywall waste.
  • recycle archStrategic Materials
    Web Site http://strategicmaterials.com
    Fax 314.421.2127 Phone 314.621.6928
    24 Branch Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63147
    Ms. Carrie Ray, Regional Supply Manager, E-Mail cray@strategicmaterials.com
    Materials accepted: window or plate glass (no frames).

    Reuse and Recycling of Electronics

  • e-cycle St. Louis www.ecyclestlouis.org
    Electronics Recycling for the St. Louis Region.

    Reuse and Recycling of Industrial and Commercial Waste

  • Industry Online Central www.iolcentral.com
    To list your waste materials for potential markets.
  • Missouri Market Development Program http://www.missouribusiness.net/environmental/recyclingmarkets.pdf
    To find markets for your recyclables.
  • Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's Industrial Material Exchange Service http://www.epa.state.il.us/land/imes
    To list your waste materials and/or search for supply.
  • Iowa Department of Natural Resources' Waste Exchange http://www.iowadnr.com/waste/iwe/index.html
    To search for supply.
  • Heartland Waste Network http://heartland.waste.net
    A free listing service for your scrap and waste materials.
  • Southern Waste Information Exchange http://www.wastexchange.org
    Listings of materials available and wanted.
  • Global Recycling Network's Green Exchange http://www.grn.com
    A resource where you can acquire waste material to serve as your supply.
  • St. Louis Teachers' Recycle Center, Inc. www.stlouisteachersrecycle.homestead.com
    To donate your waste materials and/or acquire supply.
  • Leftovers, etc. www.leftoversetc.com
    To donate your waste materials and/or acquire supply.
  • Miscellaneous Reuse and Recycling - What You Can Do http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/recycle/miscellaneous.html

    Reuse and Recycling of Pallets

  • The Pallet Man
    Web http://www.thepalletman.com
    E-Mail info@thepalletman.com
    Phone 800.373.6952 or 314.383.8200
    Fax 314.383.8220
    6300 St. Louis Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63121
    They buy and sell used wood and plastic pallets in a wide variety of sizes. Pick-up service available. Used pallets are refurbished (if necessary) and then made available for reuse.
  • St. Louis Pallets
    Web http://stlpallets.com
    E-Mail info@stlpallets.com
    Phone 636.544.4736
    316 West Pitman, O’Fallon, Missouri 63366
    They buy used wood pallets. Pick-up service is available. Used pallets are refurbished (if necessary). “All of the wood and fasteners from your unwanted pallets will either be reused or recycled…”

    Recycling of Fluorescent Bulbs

  • Lens Masters
    Phone 314.427.1660 Fax 314.427.2226
    Address: 11309 Midland Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63114
    Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm
    For a small fee, businesses can drop-off the following items to be recycled: Fluorescent lamps, ballasts, U-tubes, compacts, incandescents, and signage lamps.
  • For pick-up service visit Reuse and Recycling Opportunities
  • Fluorescent Bulb Recyclers www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub451.pdf
    A Fact Sheet from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
  • Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub2081.pdf
    A Technical Bulletin from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
  • Fluorescent Lamps www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub24.pdf
    A Technical Bulletin from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

    Recycling of Organics (e.g., inedible food or food residuals, lawn or yard trimmings, wood, etc.)

  • St. Louis Composting, Inc. http://www.stlcompost.com
    Their Millstadt, Illinois facility accepts post-consumer food waste, as well as clean, construction wood waste.
  • Find A Composter www.findacomposter.com
    Searchable database of composting facilities.

    Businesses

    Publications on How to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle...


    Also available as a downloadable     PDF or Word document

    If you're generating trash, you're throwing money down the drain. At the end, you're paying to have your trash hauled away; if you're hauling it yourself, you're still paying (e.g., tipping fee, fuel, labor) to dump it somewhere. At the beginning, you're paying for supplies, which end up being wasted because of inefficiencies in your processes and procedures. Whether you're dealing with paper in an office, steel or aluminum cans in a restaurant or bar, cardboard in a retail store, etc., here are a variety of publications that can help you reduce the amount of waste you generate, reuse materials that still have life left in them, and/or implement a recycling program.

    ...In General

    Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Waste Reduction Tips For Businesses. Online. 2003.
    Available: http://www.dnr.mo.gov/oac/pub209.pdf.

    Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania. Steps for Waste Reduction/Recycling Program Planning and Implementation. Online.
    Available: http://www.proprecycles.org/PDFs/factsheets/manufacturerfactsheet.pdf.

    St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District. Less Is More: A Guide To Reducing Waste And Improving Profits. Online. 1995.
    Available: http://www.stlouisjeffersonswmd.org/images/LessIsMoreV.pdf.

  • "The Less is More guidebook helps businesses examine the advantages of reducing and recycling trash to save money while helping the environment."

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid Waste and Emergency Response. WasteWi$e Tip Sheet: Buying Or Manufacturing Recycled Products. Online. 1994.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/pubs/buy.pdf.

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Business Guide for Reducing Solid Waste. Online. 1993.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/pubs/bus-guid/cover.pdf.

    Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Waste Reduction and Recycling: A Guide for the Workplace. Online. 2001.
    Available: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/aw/wm/publications/recycle/Workplace.pdf.

    ...In Multifamily Dwellings

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Complex Recycling Issues: Strategies for Record-Setting Waste Reduction in Multi-Family Dwellings. Online. 1999.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/f99022.pdf.

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Multifamily Recycling: A Golden Opportunity for Solid Waste Reduction. Online. 1999.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/recycle/multi.pdf.

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Multifamily Recycling: A National Study. Online. 2001.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/recycle/multifamily.pdf.

    Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Waste Reduction and Recycling: A Guide for Owners of Apartments and Other Multi-Family Dwellings. Online. 2002.
    Available: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/aw/wm/publications/recycle/PUB_CE-284-2002.pdf.

    ...In Hotels and Motels

    Green Hotels Association
    Web http://www.greenhotels.com
    Their website offers "Green Ideas" for reducing, reusing, and recycling in hotels. They also offer a "Catalog of Environmental Products," and a "Meeting Planners Questionnaire" to ensure that meeting preparations incorporated waste reduction, reuse, and recycling.

    University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service. Recycling in Hotels and Motels: A Recycling Guide For Hotel and Motel Recycling Managers. Online. 1993.
    Available: http://www.p2pays.org/ref/12/11306.pdf

    ...In Offices

    National Office Paper Recycling Project. Office Paper Recycling Guide. Online. 1991.
    Available: http://es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/recypapr.html.

  • "The National Office Paper Recycling Project is a joint effort by private companies and public interest groups to promote a national office paper recycling strategy. The goal of the project is to maximize the recycling of office waste paper and to minimize its disposal. This guide to office recycling is intended to provide information on the importance of buying recycled products and collecting recyclable office waste paper."

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid Waste and Emergency Response. It's Easy Being Green! A Guide To Planning And Conducting Environmentally Aware Meetings And Events. Online. 1996.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/grn-mtgs/gm-bklt.pdf.

  • "EPA has prepared this guide to help meeting and event planners reduce the amount of municipal solid waste generated by their meeting or event."

    Xerox Corporation. Business Guide To Waste Reduction And Recycling. Online. 1998.
    Available: http://www.getf.org/file/toolmanager/O16F7319.pdf.

    ...In Restaurants

    California Environmental Protection Agency - Integrated Waste Management Board. Restaurant Guide to Waste Reduction and Recycling. Online. 1992.
    Available: http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Publications/BizWaste/44198016.pdf.
    "Developed for food service establishments, this guide presents a variety of suggestions that restaurants can use to reduce the amount of garbage they throw away….a tool that we hope you will look at and use as food for thought on how your business can positively impact our environment and, potentially, your pocket book."

    Green Restaurant Association
    Web http://www.dinegreen.com
    Their website offers environmental guides about recycling, composting, and recycled and non-toxic products. Under "Find Endorsed Products," there is a database cataloguing products by their features, such as recycled content.

    Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Department of Environmental Programs. Recycling Guidebook for the Hospitality and Restaurant Industry. Online. 2000.
    Available: http://www.mwcog.org/environment/recycling/hotel/mentor/guidebook1.pdf.
    "This guidebook provides the steps that restaurants and hotels can follow to implement a waste reduction and recycling program. It profiles ten business programs in the Washington metropolitan area that have successfully established these programs."

    National Restaurant Association. How To Make Your Operation More Environmentally Friendly. Online. 2005.
    Available: http://www.restaurant.org/business/howto/enviro.cfm.

  • "Reducing food waste is perhaps the most obvious and largest area of your environmental efforts. You can save your establishment thousands of dollars…"

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Don't Throw Away That Food: Strategies For Record-Setting Waste Reduction. Online. 1998.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/food/foodmain.pdf.

  • "This fact sheet is oriented toward commercial and institutional food discard generators, and highlights record-setting food recovery programs."

    Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Recycling and Waste Reduction in the Restaurant Industry. Online. 2001.
    Available: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/aw/wm/publications/recycle/PUBL-CE-282-2001.pdf.

    ...In Retail

    Business For Social Responsibility. Benchmark Report: Retail Recycling Project. Online. 2002.
    Available: http://www.getf.org/file/toolmanager/O16F31184.pdf.

    California Integrated Waste Management Board. Waste Reduction at Retail Stores. Online.
    Available: http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BizWaste/FactSheets/Retail.htm.

    Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance. Retail Hardware: Best Management Practices for Waste Management. Online. July 1998.
    Available: http://www.moea.state.mn.us/berc/hardware.pdf.

    United States Environmental Protection Agency. America's Marketplace Recycles: A Guide to Waste Reduction at Shopping Centers. Online. 2004.
    Available: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve/amrguide/amrguide.pdf.

    Wisconsin Be SMART Coalition. Retail/Warehouse: Food Retail Outlets. Online.
    Available: http://www.besmart.org/hazwaste/business/warehouse/food/index.html.

    Institutions - (e.g., Colleges/Universities, Medical, Religious)

  • Institution Recycling Network http://www.ir-network.com

    Institutions - Colleges/Universities

    Although it may not be apparent to you as a student, member, or employee, it's likely that your campus or facility already has a recycling program. In many cases, it's just a matter of connecting with the right department. Whether for permanent or special event service, or recycling containers, below are recycling contacts for local institutions:

  • Maryville University
    Contact the Physical Plant Department http://www.maryville.edu/messenger/%5Farticles/11%2D10%2D06/recycle.htm.
  • Saint Louis University
    As a campus resident, contact the Department of Housing and Residence Life http://www.slu.edu/services/residence/housing/recycling.htm.
    As faculty, staff, or student, contact the Division of Facilities Management and Civic Affairs.
  • Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
    As a campus resident, contact University Housing http://www.siue.edu/housing/misc/recycling.shtml.
    As faculty, staff, or student, contact Environmental Health and Safety http://www.siue.edu/EHS/recycling/schedule.htm.
  • St. Louis Community College (All Campuses)
    Contact Physical Facilities http://stlcc.edu/physicalfacilities/dept/recycle/rec_index.shtml.
  • St. Louis Community College - Meramec Campus
    http://www.stlcc.edu/mc/recycle/index1.html
  • University of Missouri – St. Louis
    Contact Environmental Health and Safety Department http://www.umsl.edu/~asd/ehs/about/index.html.
  • Washington University
    Contact Committee on Environmental Quality http://ceq.wustl.edu/recycling.htm.

    Colleges/Universities - Additional Resources

  • recycle archEarthWays Center
    Web Site http://www.earthwayshome.org
    Fax 314.577.0298 Phone 314.577.0246
    3617 Grandel Square, St. Louis, Missouri 63108
    Ms. Katy Mike Smaistrla, E-Mail katymike.smaistrla@mobot.org
  • Grassroots Recycling Network - Campus Zero Waste http://www.grrn.org/campus
  • National Recycling Coalition - College and University Recycling Council http://www.nrc-recycle.org/councils/CURC
  • Recyclemania http://www.recyclemaniacs.org

    Institutions - Medical

    Institutions - Religious

    Non-Profit Organizations

    For questions, suggestions, or additional information, contact us by email at recycle@stlouis.missouri.org or by phone at at 314.353.8877.

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