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The below comments are closed and are listed for historical purposes.posted on November 14th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I have been living in Northern Louisiana for 3 months now. There are very few things recycled here. My LCD television was damaged, so I called a local repair shop and found that it was not worth repairing. I asked where it could be recycled and they told me that they recycle theirs in the landfill! Our city also does not recycle plastic of any kind nor glass or cardboard. It is very frustrating to live in a state, in a country that is supposed to be one of the best in the world but it can’t control its own garbage.
posted on January 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I live in New Orleans and before hurricane Katrina we had a decent recyling program (weekly pickup). Much like a lot of things in our city the program has yet to return. There are a couple programs in place that you might not know about. There is a company that picks up curbside recyling for a 15 dollar a month fee. This is their information.
Phoenix Recycling is offering curbside recycling to the city of New Orleans.To make it possible, they need to have enough people sign up. The fee is $15 a month, with a $1 discount for neighborhood association members. We will lower the price as more people join. Contact your neighborhood organization for group discounts. Phoenix will provide the bins and will collect twice a month. For more info, e-mail phoenix.recycling@gmail.com or call 504-914-0739
Also if you visit this article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_/ai_n21077752 it gives you details on monthly recyling events in New Orleans. There is a phone number in the article you can call to find out when the next event will be. Hope this helps and welcome to our great city.
posted on March 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 am
I have many magazines that I would like to recycle and don’t have a place that I know of to bring them.
Please help me with this problem.
Thank you, Linda Williams
posted on April 13th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I just ran across an ad in the paper for a recycling center in Pineville, LA (middle of the state) “Best Metal Recyclers” 318-767-6585 – I called and they will take paper and plastic, as well. Hope this helps you!
posted on June 8th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I wanted to say that I called that Best Metal Recyclers but they don’t buy plastic they will take it if you give it to them to just to recycle it. I am looking for a company that buys plastic to recycle it. I live in north Louisiana and I know so far I have not find a company yet that has it. But in Lafayette area does have places that recycles all kinds of things just have to look in the phone book or online.
posted on October 14th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Recently moved to Monroe, La and am dismayed by the lack of recycling bins and facilities. There is a scrap yard which accepts metal, corrugated cardboard, and plastics 1 and 2, but not glass. I need to locate a glass recycling facility. Anyone? Thanks!
posted on December 6th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Best Buy will recycle your old TVs. I think they use them for parts to fix other TVs they get. I would call them about recycle any TV, computer, basically all electronics. You have to take the hard drive out of the computer before bringing it to the store or there is a fee.
posted on January 9th, 2010 at 9:33 am
I live in Franklinton, Louisiana and there is no recycling at all. I take my trash directly to the landfill for disposal. I am trying to start recycling in our small subdivision of 50 homes. We are willing to sell our bottles and cans to a recycler, however, we will not pay someone to pick it up. We will deliver the material to the facility. Many other areas in other states get recyclables picked up at no additional charge. The disposal company may have to include this in their proposal to secure a lucrative trash removal contract with the city. As soon as their are more than a couple of companies are bidding on local trash hauling, Louisiana will see recycling, if our local governments will require recycling to obtain the contract. We may be waiting awhile! If a large company can make a profit on the material then it should provide the bins and pick it up at your house for free. Anyway, off the soapbox, I appreciate the other comments and will continue to look for the closest can and bottle recycler near us.
posted on January 13th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
I live in southeast section of Louisiana just North of Lake Ponchatrain. I think that it is horrible that in this time and day I can not locate a recylcing for my newpapers and maganizes. There are no recycling center less than 50 miles away. Curbside recycling in out of the question because I do not live in city limits. When talking to parish government about the subject thety just look at you like you are crazy. Am I the only person around here that feels recycling is a important responsiblility to our planet.? Not to mention I would like to teach my daughter the importance of taking care of the Earth but when our local governenment and State do not see the value and importance.
Thanks for letting me vent!!!!
posted on January 28th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Hi Everyone!
Just reading through these comments I can feel your frustration of not having anywhere to recycle in the Ark-La-Miss. It almost seems hopeless to do the right thing, right? I, for one, am from Phoenix, AZ where we have curb-side recycling, and no one really thinks twice about disposing their recyclable materials properly. This February I’m doing a series on what we can do to be a little more environmentally friendly around here, and maybe convince some of your local government leaders that it IS necessary. I know people want to do it because EVERYONE is talking about it! If you live in the Ark-La-Miss region, and you are frustrated that you can’t recycle, please contact me!! I would love to air your story. Thanks!
Frank Morales
Reporter
KNOE 8 News
o (318) 388-8888 ext. 261
m (318) 381-3362
frank.morales@knoe.com
posted on February 25th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Just moved to Mandeville, La. and I would like to offer some recycle ideas. Some organizations recycle items as fund raising projects. The local animal shelter in Picayune, Mississippi recycles aluminum cans to raise additional funds to offset expenses and will take newspaper to use in the animal enclosures. The Catholic Church in Pearl River, La. recycles newspapers to raise additional revenue for their projects. We need to do a better job of getting this information posted so people like us can use these recycle efforts as a means of doing our part to help our planet. We also need to make sure our local organizations consider these ideas as alternative fund raising projects they can use.
posted on June 2nd, 2010 at 8:00 am
I’m interested in starting a electronics recycling bussiness, but i’m haveing a hard time locating places that pay for plastic. It easy to find someone for the metal, but not the plastic and glass from the monitors. If anyone could give me some locations i would be most apprecetive.
posted on June 2nd, 2010 at 8:01 am
I forgot to put i’m in West Monroe, the closer the place the better but i’ll take any help at the moment. Thanks.
posted on June 15th, 2010 at 7:31 am
Hey Justin,
Have you tried calling Louisiana Plastics? They are located on Downing Pines Rd. here in West Monroe. I too am a little frusterated in the lack of recycling around Monroe/West Monroe. There is a place on Jackson St. in Monroe that will recycle paper, such as phone books, news paper, and magazines, and of course all of the metal recycling centers around here, but I have yet to locate a facility for recycling glass. Hope this helps and if anyone knows a local place to recycle glass, please let me know.
posted on July 31st, 2010 at 10:43 am
Christus Schumpert welcomes magazines to put in waiting rooms for patients and families waiting for chemo and radiation.
posted on August 3rd, 2010 at 10:02 pm
B & H recycle
I recycle old scrap metal and cars and trucks. I am located in S.E. louisiana and will remove all metal for free and actually pay for some of the vehicles. If you know anyone with some old junk lying around email me or give me a call.
“Dedicated to go green”
Billy Collins
985-634-5976
hollynbilly@gmail.com
posted on August 21st, 2010 at 11:22 am
My husband and I live on the Northshore, and we are just as frustrated about the lack of recycling available AND the lack of interest. No one seems to care! We do have curb side recycling through Premier Waste Services. We pay $100 per quarter for trash pick up 2 X week and recycling pick up 1 X week. However, they do not take glass. If you are interested please call 985-674-1473.
We used to drive to Hammond to take our glass, but they no longer offer this service to the community. Does anyone in our state recycle glass? I have several bins full of glass that I am going to have to dump in the landfill soon!
posted on September 12th, 2010 at 9:00 am
I live in Monroe (North Louisiana) and have been looking for glass recycling. Doing a search it appears now that Target stores in Monroe, Bossier, and Shreveport have started to offer glass recycling. Check your local Target store to be sure. I’m driving over to the one in Monroe today to see for sure.
posted on January 16th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
I moved to the N. Shore area 3 months ago from the Triangle area of North Carolina. I work for an environmental nonprofit and have found it so lamentable not to have any recycling facilities. I don’t need curbside pick up. Just a place to go with all my bins already sorted. Frankly, in NC, which is not always the most progressive state, it became a weekly (or so) social ritual to show up at the trash and recycling center and put all the waste in the correct bins. I actually miss that. Even though I have pick up here at my rural home (something I haven’t had in 20 years), I just ache each time I throw away glass, plastic bottles, paper, etc. And to boot, my taxes are actually higher here! I’ve found a strange lack of pride among many in LA (I grew up here and left 40 years ago at age 10) who seem amazed I’d move back here. This is a beautiful, dynamic landscape that, yes, is imperiled, but not hopelessly so. The return or introduction of recycling here would be a sign to me that a renewed pride is about more than football!
posted on January 25th, 2011 at 11:17 am
My parents live in North Louisiana and my Dad hauled pulpwood. He has been retired for over 20 years and now we have at least 2 parital pulpwood trucks, a tractor, an old pickup truck, and another piece of heavy machinery. The cabs on the trucks are rusted as well as the back end portion that holds the wood. I doubt very seriously if there are any useable parts on these pieces; however, we need to find how to properly dispose of them. Whether or not the rust iron is recyclable is what we need to find out and if so, who do we get rid of it?
posted on February 25th, 2011 at 8:28 am
Our company has been green since our beginning in 1985… you might say, Melaleuca was Green, when Green was just a color. While we don’t have all the answers to recycling problems or the lack thereof, I would suggest that there is a way to reduce plastic waste that winds up in our landfills by 2/3′s in every house in America, starting right now. want to see how… watch a short video at http://imaginealifewithoutpain.com/Recycle1.html
Dave Gilliland
Monroe, LA
posted on March 28th, 2011 at 2:03 am
why, oh why is there no incentive program for recycling in louisiana?! and how can i either inspire a group to caravan and clean up the trash around the rivers,i.e.calcasieu, ouisiachitto, ya’ll know , the party, great weekend rivers. i mean, if there need be more incentive than beautification,how ’bout the loot from selling the cans?”or donating them to the local churches? i don’t know, just seems that something could be accomplished w/ a collective effort, and it would probably be entertaining as all get-out, w/the colorful folks (like me) that tend to frequent them.just a thought, seems to be difficult for me to find any volunteer group that may already be like-minded; however, if there is such a group, please feel free to contact me, i would live to dedicate some of my time to such an effort.
posted on April 4th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
If you are in the New Orleans area Allied Waste has a monthly recycling day.
The first Saturday of every month we collect recyclables from 8am to 1pm.
Anyone can drop off their recycling at 808 L&A Road, Metairie, LA 70001.
Allied Waste is currently the only single stream recycling facility in the city. We provide commercial recycling, and hope to see each local parish start recycling soon.
posted on April 4th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Sorry I forgot to mention that we accept
Paper, Plastic, Cardboard and metals.
We will also help recycle any e-waste (computers) and cooking oil.
We have a convenient drive-thru (rain or shine) where volunteers will unload all goods.
posted on April 9th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
I live in Haughton, (Northwest LA) and attend LSUS. We have huge bins in the university parking lot that accepts, cardboard and paper (phone books, magazines, etc), but no plastic or glass. Does anyone know of a place in northwest LA, where I can take my plastic and glass to be properly recycled? I don’t care about the money, I just want to do my part to lessen the carbon footprint.
Thanks
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