CHaRM Accepted Materials

CHaRM (Collection of Hard-to-Recycle Materials) pop-up events help residents repurpose and recycle materials that would otherwise be landfilled. Here is what you can bring to a CHaRM event! To view future CHaRM events, visit here.

• batteries

• bikes and parts

• electronic waste (cell phones and chargers, computers, laptops, monitors, tablets, corded electronics, string lights, TV's, small appliances, etc.) Please no CRTs or big older TVs

• ink and toner cartridges

• lightbulbs

• mattresses and box springs ($15 each)

• oral care (used toothbrushes, empty toothpaste tubes, empty floss containers)

• plastics clamshells (clear only, clean)

• plastics film (stretchy plastic, bags and wrap)

• ski & snowboard gear (no helmets, no clothes)

• scrap metal

• Styrofoam (hard compressed, not spongy, no packing peanuts, no food containers)

• tires and tubes ($5 per tire, exception for bike tubes & tires)