What We Take
The Midland Recyclers Recycling and Reuse Center
Where you are the Recycler.
The Recycling Center is a do-it-yourself drop-off, open to residents, schools, organizations and businesses in the Great Lakes Bay region. To ensure and quick and easy drop-off experience please bring only acceptable materials and prepare them as indicated below.
Hours of Operation
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Wednesday: 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
What items can I bring to the Recycling Center?
Keep the following types of paper separate from each other.
Midland Recyclers sends them off to different processors and therefore has a dedicated collection container for each type of paper at the Recycling Center.
- Corrugated cardboard, flattened and paper bags
- Cereal and boxboard, flattened
- Office paper and mail
- Shredded paper (Shred your paper at the recycling center!)*
- Magazines and catalogs, glossy
- Newspapers and everything that comes in them
- Phone books
Keep the following types of plastic separate from each other.
- #1 bottles, clear or translucent
- #2 bottles, must have seam across bottom
- #2 all other shapes and sizes
- #2 milk jugs
- #3-#6 plastic
- Plastic bags, all types accepted, including shrink wrap
- Bubble Wrap and Air Pillows (keep separate from plastic bags)
- Vinyl siding
- Foam sheets
- Polystyrene foam (PS6) – often used to pack electronics and large appliances.
- Loop carriers – 6 and 8 pack beverage rings
Midland Recyclers sends them off to different processors and therefore has a dedicated collection container for each material at the Recycling Center. Remember . . . All items must be clean, rinsed out, with lids removed.
- Steel cans, including aerosol
- Aluminum, all sizes and types accepted
- NI-CAD and rechargeable batteries, auto and marine
- Ink jet cartridges $
- Returnable cans and bottles $
- corks
- altoid type tins
$ These items help support Midland Recyclers operation.
*Did you know about the paper shredder at the recycling center? It is a light duty industrial shredder that can shred 100 sheets at a time. It is a self serve shredder that you can come in and use anytime for a small fee.
Midland Recyclers Reuse Area
The Reuse Center has unbelievable low prices on items that can be used in the classroom, by art students, crafters, and anyone looking for creative ways to save money through reuse. Come check out the Reuse Center for yourself!
Call ahead to confirm what you’re looking for is available. Special orders are welcome.
Manufacturer’s scraps are also welcome. Please call ahead to verify that we have a need and room for your scraps.
Here’s sampling of what you might find at the Reuse Center
Misc. Items |
Packing Materials |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 ring binders – 50¢ ea. | Bubble wrap – $5 bag | ||
| 5 gallon buckets – $1 ea. | Dish pack boxes – $2 ea. | ||
| Baby food jars – 10¢ ea. | Wardrobe boxes – $2 ea. |
||
| CD ROMS | Moving boxes – $1-$2 | ||
| Canning jars – 25¢ ea. | Blue Wine Bottles – $1 | ||
| Coffee cans | Packing paper – $2 bag | ||
| Decorative tins – 50¢ ea. | Packing p-nuts – $5 bag | ||
| Egg cartons 2¢ ea. | Foam sheets – $1 bag | ||
| Film canisters | |||
| Corks – 5¢ – 10¢ ea. | |||
| Hanging file folders – 10/$1 | |||
| Kitty litter pails – 50¢ ea. | |||
| Magazines | |||
How is the recycling center different from the curbside program?
Midland Recyclers is a non-profit organization dedicated to recycling all materials possible, even those that are marginally profitable . Midland Recyclers offers volunteer opportunities and free educational programs to people of all ages and abilities.
Just move to Midland? Welcome to our fine community!
Are you buried in moving boxes and packing paper?
Don’t let the trash hauler take them to the landfill!
For a small fee, Midland Recyclers will pick up those boxes and packing paper and put them to good use.
To set-up an appointment for a pick-up, call (989) 631-1668.
