Community Resources In Recycling:

The Missoula Artists Shop, an arts collective is accepting bubblewrap. They will reuse it to ship out their beautiful creations call 542-3379 or stop by 306N. Higgins Ave.

Freecycles 732 S.1st W. Street. A donation based community bike shop. Mon-Thurs 4-7pm are open shop hours. Tune up your existing bike with replacement parts, volunteers will help you with the technical details. Build a bike if you need to. Find out more about bike paths bike lanes and getting involved in transportation issues. Pick up a free bike route map. Also check the schedule for classes on bike repair, maintenance and building. Annual and lifetime memberships are also available. Donate time money or bikes if you are able. Call 541-PATH(7284).

"Christmas Ever Green" gives your old Christmas trees to EKO Compost to mack into mulch. In 2004 approximately 16,000 trees were kept out of the landfill and reused. The program is free: but make sure everything is removed from trees including decorations and tinsel before dropping trees off. The usual collection points are: Playfair Park parking lot, McCormick Pool parking lot and the Fort Missoula softball compiles along South Avenue. For more info contact Missoula City Forester at 258-3757.

Home Resource: donate used building material of all sorts. (Over 40% of total landfill is construction waste)

The Missoula Urban Demonstration Project (MUD): A nonprofit organization that provides tools for building a sustainable community. MUD believes that people can fulfill their present needs without compromising the needs of future generations by making positive choices regarding food, transportation, shelter, and waste.

Sustainable Business Council: Local businesses supporting like-minded sustainable businesses.

TreeCycle: complete the loop and buy recycled paper products like office paper and notebooks.

Ace Hardware: 18 gallon blue "We Recycle" tubs- $11.79 (with pre-drilled drainage holes)

BFI-RecycleNow on West Broadway: drop off site for all domestic recyclables except for glass. They pay for some items like aluminum and copper.

Cell phones: most cellular dealerships have a recycle bin for old phones and batteries.

Eko-Compost: It is free to bring lawnclippings, leaves and branches up to 5' inches across.

Pacific Steel: washers, dryers and microwaves can be dropped of during daylight hours; also old engine blocks, transmissions and all scrap metals. (Refrigerators have to be certified that all Freon has been removed by a licensed appliance store then they can be dropped off.)

Palmer Electric charges 55 cents a pound and they accept keyboards, mouse, printers and all other peripheral devices. They charge to dispose of TVs and CRT monitors. They also recycle fluorescent lights and recover all gasses and oxides used in fluorescent light tubes and compact fluorescent bulbs.

ReCompute Computers: they can accept some computer donations but specialize is software repair and reselling used computers and laptops at very affordable prices.

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