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

• Goodwill
• Green Drop (See Note)
• Salvation Army Family Store

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.

Recycling Other Items

Go to the Earth 911 Website for 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.