Recycle Guide

recycleLamorinda Recycle Guide

A joint project of Sustainable Lafayette and Sustainable Moraga

I WANT TO RECYCLE:

Plastic Shopping Bags
Safeway, Longs Drugs/CVS, Diablo Foods

Printer/Toner Cartridges
Post Office, RadioShack, FedEx, Elmwood Stationers

CFL Light Bulbs
Orchard Supply Hardware (Moraga), Lafayette Ace Hardware

Batteries
Post Office, Ace Hardware, Longs Drugs/CVS, Elmwood Stationers

Toys
Wayside Inn Thrift (Lafayette), Nifty Thrift Shop (Lafayette)

Clothes
Goodwill (Rheem Shopping Center), Wayside Inn Thrift, Nifty Thrift Shop

Books/Videos/DVDs
Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda Libraries

Medicine
Walnut Creek City Hall, Walnut Creek Court House, Orinda City Hall

Cell Phones
Elmwood Stationers, Radio Shack

KEY DROP-OFF LOCATIONS:

Goodwill Donation Center at Rheem
Rheem Shopping Center, 566 Center St. (Map)
Hours: 9am-8pm daily
Working appliances, clothes, household items

Wayside Inn Thrift
3521 Golden Gate Way, Lafayette (Map)
Hours: Tu-F 11am-4pm, Sa 11am-3pm
Toys, books, clothing, household items, reusable appliance donations

Nifty Thrift Shop
3467 Golden Gate Way, Lafayette (Map)
Hours: M-Sa 9:30am-4pm
Toys, books, clothing, household items

Lafayette Post Office
Cell phones, electronics, inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges

Walnut Creek Recycling Center
480 Lawrence Way, Walnut Creek (Map)
Hours: Drop off is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Scrap metal, paper, plastic, aluminum cans, untreated wood debris, motor oil, antifreeze, yard clippings

Hauling Pros Recycle Center
1403-B Autocenter Drive, Walnut Creek (Map) All electronics (free) and appliances (small charge).

NexCycle at Safeway in Lafayette
3540 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette (Map)
#1 & #2 plastic, aluminum cans, glass

 

2 Responses to Recycle Guide

  1. ty allison says:

    Do you know anywhere we can take cardboard boxes for recycling?
    We just moved into a house in LAfayette and have a lot of cardboard
    boxes to dispose of.

    Ty

  2. admin says:

    Hi Ty,

    You can take your flattened cardboard boxes to the Recycling Center in Walnut Creek. Here is a page with their address and more information:
    http://www.wastediversion.org/app_pages/view/44

    thanks,

    Michael
    Sustainable Lafayette

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