Here is some info for those of you who live in or around Provo and don't know where to recycle. You have two easy and affordable options:
1. Sign up for curbside recycling with Provo City. They will bring you a fancy blue garbage can that you can put all of your recyclables in and they will pick it up every two weeks. The cost: $5/month. It's a pretty sweet deal. Orem offers the same program for $3/month.
2. This is what we do, since we rent and can't add the recycling to our garbage bill: Provo has a drop-off recycling center where you can take the following recyclables:
plastics #1 and #2
cardboard
paper
phonebooks
aluminum and tin
The recycling center is located at the compost station, which is at 1625 S. Industrial Parkway in Provo (behind East Bay). You just drive past the compost to the recycling bins just behind it. The cost: $0.
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I randomly found this when searching how to recycle in Provo. Thanks so much, I've wanted a straight and easy answer just like this one. I think I'll blog about it as well.
Hannah
http://hane-nahmarie.blogspot.com/
I am on a team in a Media Advocacy and Social Change class at BYU that is writing about how the city of Provo and Brigham Young University can work together to make recycling more available to students off-campus. Recycling is easily available when students are on campus and in class, however, as you know,
there is not much of an opportunity for students to recycle when they are off-campus. I have a few questions and ask for a few suggestions as well. We hope to write a proposal to the city council.
1) What is the city of Provo requiring for students to have the opportunity to recycle?
2) Besides your program, do you know of any other programs that are available to students that live off-campus?
3) Is there any way to skip the landlord process? Does the bin ordering have to be done in his/her name specifically?
4) Is the city open to students recycling since they make up a majority of the city, or at least a concentrated part of the city?
5) Do you have any other information or ideas available?
Regards,
Zach Anderson
Please reply to: zachary.w.anderson@gmail.com
Thanks a lot Jolyn. I've been trying all day to find out where to take my personal recyclables...and no one I asked seemed to know other than the small bins on BYU campus. I think more people would recycle if they knew where to bring their stuff.
Thanks.
Jolyn,
I own a small business, One Man's Trash, that offers a recycling program called the Go Green Initiative. It's a recycling pickup service aimed at BYU students living in apartments. As you probably know, the city does not provide recycling pickup to apartment addresses, and few if any complexes in Provo have recycling bins available. To make recycling easy for students, we offer a semester long contract for $32/apartment. We provide 20 blue recycling bags, in which can go aluminum and steel cans, newspaper, magazines/ inserts, paper and paperboard, plastics type 1 and 2, and corrugated cardboard. The best part of the program is that no sorting of recyclables is needed for the students- they all go in the same bag.
Every Saturday, the students leave their bagged, unsorted recyclables on their front porch by 9 AM. We pick them up and take them in to a local recycling center.
The program, which just started in September 2008, is already serving more than 500 students and will recycle about 8,000 pounds this fall semester alone. Beginning in January 2009, we will be operating at nearly every large apartment complex in Provo.
To join, just send us your address at onemanstrash@live.com.
Enviornmentally Yours,
James Marshall
One Man's Trash
Thank you! I've been searching for where to recycle in Provo.
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