RELIABLE PICKUPS
Curbside pickups every week for compost and once-a-month for glass. Just place our container(s) next to your primary trash bin the night before your scheduled pickup date.
A Special Thanks to Our Lead Sponsor
What We Do
Montanans recycle 13% less than the average American. Why is that? Glass is one of the answers. Montana has not yet established a glass recycling infrastructure, and there are no bottle manufacturers in the state to melt and reuse our glass.
We collect, crush, and store your glass locally, then ship it down to Momentum Recycling in Salt Lake City. Momentum is the closest processing facility with the means to efficiently create and use aggregate. They do a fantastic job of separating and sorting glass so it can be turned back into bottles and products like home insulation and sandblasting material. We are also happy to support local projects that utilize our glass for reuse purposes.
Your organic material will be collected and delivered to Garden City Compost. Garden City has perfected their composting methods and sell ready-to-use compost for your garden.
What We Pickup
GLASS
Accepted
– Wine Bottles
– Beer Bottles
– Spirit Bottles
– Clean (!) Food Jars
– Labels All OK
Not Accepted
– Caps/Corks/Lids
– Food Residue
– Window Glass/ Light bulbs
*Items like light bulbs and window glass can not be picked up due to foreign properties in their chemical compositions
ORGANICS
Accepted
Recycling Works accepts all food waste besides grease and garbage. Materials such as wood chippings and sawdust can be accepted as long as they fit in the curbside bucket.
Not Accepted
– Construction debris other than lumber
– Plastics of any kind (Please Recycle)
– Metal of any kind (Please Recycle)
– Cardboard of any kind
– Painted or treated wood
– Rocks, gravel or concrete
– Un-bailed hay, straw, manure or animal bedding
– Root balls containing rocks or dirt
*For more information on what can and cannot be composted, please visit the Garden City Compost website, operated by the City of Missoula
Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without loss in quality or purity.
The amount of recycled glass containers was 3 million tons in 2015, for a recycling rate of ONLY 26.4%
Compost can capture and destroy 99.6 percent of industrial volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) in contaminated air.G
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Latest News
Ravalli County Glass Drop Event on October 3rd, 2020
We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be assisting Ravalli County Recycling and the City of Hamilton with their glass drop-off on October 3rd! The event will take place at[…]
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Helpful Info for Drop-off
Because of COVID, we will now have our volunteers estimate your glass volume by just eyeballing the number of bottles and jars you’ve brought. It’s not a perfect system, but[…]
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Update for September 6th Glass Drop-off
This drop-off event will be completely contact-less, as advised by the Missoula County Health Department. If you attended our last drop-off in June, it will be very similar, but we[…]
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