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Ridwell
Ridwell is a fee-based service that picks up materials from your front door (bi-weekly) and gets it to their partners for recycling or reuse. See their partners for recycling and reuse. Learn more about offerings in the Bay Area. Offers regular items for pick up and one-offs to support local reuse partners. For example, halloween candy for troops, eyeglasses with Lion's Club, political lawn signs after voting day, school supplies, art supplies, and houseware.
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| Batteries - Household - Single-Use | Call2Recycle uses mechanical recycling techniques to recover material to create new batteries. |
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| Cables & Wires - Non-working | Portable devices, cords, and chargers |
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| Clothing - Good Condition | Reusable and non-reusable clothes, shoes, linens and towels. Goodwill of San Francisco Bay ensures your threads get reused or recycled. City of Alameda Ridwell client's have their textiles shredded to be made into shoddy for carpet padding and vehicle seat stuffing (so be sure to only send clean, poor condition textiles.) |
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| Clothing - Poor Condition | City of Alameda Ridwell client's have their textiles shredded to be made into shoddy for carpet padding and vehicle seat stuffing (so be sure to only send clean, poor condition textiles.) Donate anything in good condition elsewhere. |
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| Corks - Natural | Natural corks and closures |
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| Eyeglasses | Partner with Lion's Club eyeglass reuse program. |
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| Light Bulbs - CFLs | Clean Earth uses safe recycling techniques to handle lightbulb materials including mercury gas. |
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| Light Bulbs - Incandescent/Halogen | Clean Earth uses safe recycling techniques to handle lightbulb materials including mercury gas. |
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| Light Bulbs - LED | Clean Earth uses safe recycling techniques to handle lightbulb materials including mercury gas. |
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| Multi-layer Plastic Packaging | Food storage bags, pet food bags, frozen food bags, and more layered packaging. ByFusion and Hydroblox recycle your multi-layer plastic into things like building and drainage materials |
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| Pill Bottles | Pill bottles are donated to a partner for reuse. |
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| Plastic Bags | Shipping bags, plastic bags, overwrap, air pillows and other stretchy plastics. Trex turns your plastic film and wrap into new decking material. |
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| Plastic Bubble Envelopes | Trex turns your plastic film and wrap into new decking material. |
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| Plastic Corrugated Signs | Collected after the voting season for a once off pick up (late November/December) partnering with a local plastics recycler and metal recycler. In 2024, pick up available without Ridwell membership. Go to ridwell.com and search Plastic Campaign Yard Signs. |
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| Plastic Film & Wrap | Shipping bags, plastic bags, overwrap, air pillows and other stretchy plastics. Trex turns your plastic film and wrap into new decking material. |
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| Plastic Lids & Caps - Bottles and Jars | Loose bottle caps. Also take plastic bread tags. |
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| Styrofoam Blocks | National Recycling Corporation densifies EPS so that it can be turned into things like picture frames. |
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