Flooded Lizard Kingdom

I needed to find a recycling outlet for some paperback journals and phone books I liberated from a friend. I thought Ecology Action at 9th and IH-35 would take them, but I wanted to double check. After all, if I'm fed up with my neighbors who have curbside trying to recycle plastic bags, cereal boxes, margarine tubs, and all kinds of other stuff the City of Austin doesn't take, I need to check on these things before I drop stuff off.

So here's the scoop on Ecology Action:

First of all, we take paper. And not just newspaper, any type of paper except waxed paper (such as paper orange juice cartons). This means phone books, books, heavy cardstock, and packing paper (please fold it if you can).

Cardboard is another big one. We would like you to flatten the boxes: that saves us a LOT of work.

We can recycle #1 and #2 plastic of any type, except for bags. That means that we can take bottles, jars, tubs (such as yogurt and margarine bins), trays, cups and more. As long as it has a #1 or #2 recycling symbol on it, and it’s not a bag, we can now accept it.