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Added: August 05, 2008
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The Starkville Recycling Program is a cooperative effort by the City of Starkville and Starkville Recycling. The city provides 24 hours/seven days a week collection services through 4 permanent drop-off sites located in Starkville. The collection containers are owned and serviced by Starkville Recycling.
Starkville Recycling is located at 211 C.C. Clark Road
Recycling is only one part of a three-part strategy in the recycling loop.
The other two parts are "reduce" and "reuse." These two strategies are actually more effective than the "recycle" component alone. Consider, before each purchase, creative ways you can reduce your need for the product. Also consider the package that it comes in. Is it "Earth friendly"? Can it be recycled in our community? At every opportunity, buy products made from "post-consumer" recycled materials (% content will be listed on the package). This is the most crucial aspect in closing the recycling loop. If there is not a demand for products made from or packaged in recycled materials, then the collection process is irrelevant.
Recycling Drop-Off Site Locations...
Fire Station #1, Lampkin Street at Russell Street
Fire Station #3, Garrard Road and Highway 389
Fire Station #4, S. Montgomery Street and Academy Road
Starkville Recycling, 211 C.C. Clark Road
Please do not leave items outside of the collection containers. Call Starkville Recycling at 662-324-0930 if the containers are full.
WHAT AND HOW TO RECYCLE
Each drop-off site has one container each for Newspaper, Cardboard, and Aluminum Cans. White office paper (computer or copy machine paper) is accepted at Starkville Recycling during business hours.
NEWSPAPER: Must be clean, dry, and unbound. No bags or string; take these home with you for reuse. Inserts that come with the newspaper are acceptable. Please do not add junk mail, catalogs, telephone books, or any other type of paper.
By recycling 1 ton of paper, we save: 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, and enough energy to heat an average home for 6 months!
CARDBOARD: Only clean, dry corrugated cardboard, please. This is the cardboard with 3 layers, 2 smooth outside layers with a honeycomb or wavy layer in the middle. Colored boxes are acceptable but no wax-coated boxes (usually used for produce or frozen foods). No cereal boxes. Remove all packing materials and flatten all boxes to save space in the collection containers. Shipping labels and some packaging tape are acceptable, but no duct tape.
ALUMINUM CANS: Please rinse cans well. Do not place any metals or other items inside of the cans.
Recycling aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy required to make aluminum cans from scratch!
WHITE OFFICE PAPER: White office paper is accepted only at STARKVILLE RECYCLING. There are no collection containers at the drop-off sites for office paper. Ink may be colored but the paper must be white. No glossy, colored, waxed, or soiled paper accepted. No carbon paper.
PLASTICS: Plastics are available to be dropped off at Fire Station 1 and at the main recycling center on C.C. Clark Road.
Manufacturers can make one extra-large T-shirt out of only five recycled plastic soda bottles, and a pair of blue jeans out of only two recycled plastic soda bottles blended with cotton!
OTHER RECYCLING SERVICES
Services for recycling and reclaiming other items are offered by local Starkville businesses and other entities within Mississippi. Any businesses who would like to add services to this web site, please contact the Sanitation Head for the City of Starkville at 662-323-2652.
SCRAP TIRES:
City of Starkville/Oktibbeha County Rubbish Landfill
Rock Hill Road
662-324-1180
(also accepts large appliances)
Golden Triangle Regional Solid Waste Management Authority
2505 Old West Point Road
662-324-7566
It takes half a barrel of crude oil to produce the rubber in just one tire!
USED MOTOR OIL:
AutoZone
901 Hwy. 12 West
662-324-1090
Wal Mart Tire and Lube Express
1010 Hwy. 12 West
662-324-3981
LEAD-ACID CAR BATTERIES:
AutoZone
901 Hwy. 12 West
662-324-1090
(no purchase necessary)
Wal Mart Super Center
1010 Hwy. 12 West
662-323-0488
(with purchase)
The average lead-acid battery contains between 18-22 pounds of recoverable lead, a gallon of sulfuric acid and about three pounds of polypropylene casing!
NICKEL-CADMIUM (NI-CAD) RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES: Batteries that power camcorders, cordless and cellular phones, laptop computers, and cordless power tools.
Radio Shack
Starkville Crossing Mall
662-323-7426
Most cellular phone service providers
BUTTON BATTERIES: Mercury and silver oxide button batteries are used in watches, calculators, hearing aids, etc.
Wal Mart Super Center Jewelry Dept.
1010 Hwy. 12 West
662-323-0488
PLASTIC GROCERY SACKS: All of the following businesses accept clean plastic grocery bags of all types.
Wal Mart Super Center
1010 Hwy. 12 West
662-323-0488
Kroger
832 Highway 12 West
Starkville, MS
Salvation Army
752 Hwy. 82 West
662-324-3304
STYROFOAM PACKING PEANUTS:
UPS
834 Hwy. 12 West
662-338-5077
(also accepts clean packing paper)
C&C Mail
214 East Main Street, Downtown
662-324-0017
(also accepts clean packing materials and cardboard boxes)
BUILDING SUPPLIES:
Habitat for Humanity will accept used building materials in good condition. Examples: wood, nails, plumbing and light fixtures, electrical wiring, etc. Please contact Beverly Bowers at 662-324-7008 for more information.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE: Once a year, the Golden Triangle Regional Solid Waste Authority conducts a household hazardous waste collection in the GTR area (Starkville, Columbus, or West Point). This event usually occurs in the fall. Please watch for an announcement about this event on the drop-off information signs and in the Happenings section of the Starkville Daily News.
GLASS: Glass is accepted by Strategic Materials in Flowood, MS. Only glass that had a top on it (NO CERAMICS such as dishes or cups). Contact Robert Schmidt at 601-932-5000 or 601-942-5249 for more information and directions.
YARD WASTE: Please compost your yard waste.
THANK YOU FOR RECYCLING!