Garland County Recycle Center

I wish there was a place like this near me in Atlanta Georgia. The facility is very nice. It is well run and very clean. The staff are friendly and helpful. The one item that they cannot take are florescent light bulbs, whether the long tube bulbs, nor the CFL's that many of us have at home. Doing my part to save the planet one recyclable at a time.

I have dropped off plastics here many times over the years, often receiving help and a "thank you" from the workers. However, I recently stopped by (4/23/18) to drop off bagged plastics, as I always have, and was greeted with an angry scowl from a man who ignored me when I said hello, and he began yelling for someone named Mark (the manager, as I later found out.) I had already placed some of the bagged plastic into the big plastics bin with the rest of the bags of plastic, and the first guy became irate and told me he didn't want my trash and began pulling my bags out of the bin and throwing them all over the place. You'd think I'd dumped a bag of roadkill into their plastics bin or something by the way he was acting. This Mark guy showed up and told me he didn't want my house trash an

There are bins for each type of material, so plan to spend a few minutes and sort your items ahead of time. They now accept glass, aluminum, corrugated cardboard (but not cereal box style cardboard), paper, steel, plastic (1 and 2 only), electronics, appliances, and batteries. Helpful staff.. ask if you have questions.

Very sorry to hear that the County is still contracting with a Company that will no longer take #1 and #2 plastics unless it is "heavy" plastic, that pretty much rules out most beverage containers including plastic water bottles, because they are "thin" plastic. Time to find another Company to take the plastic, since this is not very good stewardship of our environment.

If you're worried about the so-called stewardship of the environment in regards to plastic drink bottles why do you still buy them. Point the finger at yourself before you pass the buck to someone else simple mind