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Earth 911

Need to know where to take those “hard to recycle” items? Your new best friend is Earth911.org. Just type what you need to recycle and where you are. You’ll get a list of places you can bring that item, with an impressive amount of detail.

Something simple like “corrugated cardboard” brings up Longmont’s single-stream curbside recycling as the first result. That’s easy. Something trickier like “cell phones” finds a list of nearby stores that will accept them. I brought a pair of old phones to Staples today, and a burned-out compact fluorescent light bulb (the first I’ve ever had burn out) to Lowe’s.

Being able to find a place to recycle everything from packing peanuts to batteries on a single website makes the chore of disposing of recyclable trash more than a little easier.