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Recycle Everyday Household Items
Recycle Your Car
The Car Donation Wizard website will connect with any one of a long list of not-for-profit charities that accept cars as donated contributions. All donations are tax-deductible. Go to Car Donation Wizard.
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
- Delaware County Solid Waste Authority, Rose Tree Park - Hunt Club, 1521 N Providence Road (Route Number 252), Media, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm,
- Any Delaware County Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Events
- Home Depot or Lowes stores
Batteries
- Target - all batteries: alkaline, rechargeable, lithium
- Lowes- all batteries: alkaline, rechargeable, lithium
- Home Depot stores rechargeable tool batteries only
Cell Phones
- Delaware County Libraries
- Delaware County Solid Waste Authority, Rose Tree Park - Hunt Club, 1521 N Providence Road (Route Number 252), Media.
- Any Delaware County Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Events
- Media Elementary School
Televisions
- Best Buy - For a $25 fee. Tube TVs 32 inches or less; flat-panel TVs: LCD, Plasma, LED smaller than 50 inches)
- Salvation Army Family Store - (working TVs and small appliances only). 66 Chester Pike Collingdale, PA 19023. Call 610-461-9102.
- Ecovanta Philadelphia.
- Community Action Agency of Delaware County. (Working TVs only) - Call 610-874-8451 to schedule a pickup or drop off.
No TVs or computers in borough trash or bulk pick up.
Small Appliances
- Staples
- Best Buy - Computers, other electronics, small appliances, wires, cords and cables, jewel cases.
- Commonwealth Computer Recycling, Aston -Computer-related equipment; air conditioners
- Microcenter - Computer-related equipment; air conditioners
- Salvation Army Family Store - (small appliances only)
Textiles, Fabric, or Clothing
These charities re-sell used clothes at a low price with profits going to charitable causes. If items are too damaged to be reused as clothing they are sold to the rag industry, which re-purposes the fabric into a variety of products.
Note: Green Drop is a business that collects items on behalf of client charities such as Purple Heart.
Air Conditioners
Working Air Conditioners:
Community Action Agency of Delaware County. Call 610-874-8451 to schedule a pickup or drop-off.
Non-Working Air Conditioners:
Air conditioners cannot be picked up by the Borough and will have to be recycled through one of the vendors listed under small appliances (above).
Other Recyclers
- Ridge Metals, Conshohocken, 610-828-5553. For a fee.
- H and R Trucking, 610-833-2836, will come to your house and pick it up for a fee.
- Ecovanta, Philadelphia, 215-921-7507. For a fee.
Hard to Recycle Items
- Earth 911 Website, a comprehensive search directory of local recycling and proper disposal options for a variety of materials, including hard-to-recycle items such as fluorescent tubes.
- Rabbit Recycling, an on-demand and subscription service for households and businesses to recycle, reuse, and upcycle hard-to-recycle materials!