Flower Mound Reuse and Recycling

Packing peanuts - Mail & More - 200 South Mill Street in Lewisville (972) 221-7965; Post Net in Super Target shopping center in Flower Mound; National Mail Centers Located at 1301 FM 407, Suite 201, Highland Village - (972) 317-6254. (also accepts preformed styrofoam packaging materials.); Parcels Plus Located at 2250 FM 407, Suite 108, Highland Village - (972) 317-4966. (also accepts bubble wrap)

Packaging Foam (e.g. TV, VCR, stereo equipment, etc.). - Foam Fabricators Located at 900 E. FM 1709, Keller - (817) 379-6520.

Wire Hangers - One Hour Martinizing Located at 2250 FM 407, Suite 148, Highland Village - (972) 317-9171. (also accepts plastic dry cleaning bags ). Other emails were sent out with drycleaners that accept the hangers only but this one also takes the bags so I'm listing it here.
Plastic Grocery Bags - Tom Thumb & Wal-Mart have drop off boxes to return plastic grocery bags. Even if they have the recycle symbol on them they don't take them in the blue bins on recycle day. A friend emailed that it's because they clog the conveyors. Makes sense!

Plastic Pots and Plastic Flat Carriers - Hartwells Garden Center Located at 1570 N. Stemmons, Lewisville - (972) 436-3612.; Huggins Garden Center 1616 Arrowhead, Flower Mound - (972) 539-4011. one & five gallon pots and plastic flat carriers.

Aluminum, copper, brass, batteries, glass, plastics, aluminum/copper reefers, stainless steel. Almetco Recycling - RECYCLE FOR CASH!! Located at 709 North Cowan, Lewisville - (972) 221-7442.

Appliances, Scrap metal - Fulton Recycling and Supply Located at 1404 Ft. Worth Drive, Denton - (940) 383-1651.Usable Paint - Lewisville High School Drama Department Located at 1098 West Main, Lewisville - (972) 221-3535.

Car batteries, tires & motor oil - Auto Zone (5 gallons per visit), all locations - car batteries and motor oil; car batteries only - Ken Owens Battery Store Located at 275 S. Mill, Lewisville - (972) 436-3974. ; West-Tex Tire and Auto Located at 1425 FM 407, Lewisville - (972) 317-4599. Accepts motor oil, oil filters, car/boat/motorcycle batteries, used tires.
Small Batteries - Radio Shack All locations. Recycle Batteries Hotline - 1-800-8-BATTERY. Accepts Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries found in power tools, cell/cordless phones, camcorders, etc.


Used Children's and Adult's Athletic Shoes - 1st Serve Shoe Bank has a collection box at Bridlewood Elementary. The large red collection box is about 50 ft inside the front door on the left wall, just past the second set of security doors.

Used Cell Phones & Used Toner Cartridges - Bridlewood Elementary collects these items, turns them into a recycler and gets money back for the school! There are a few cardboard boxes to collect these items across from the red shoe collection bin on the opposite wall. If you don't see a box for these ask in the office.Used working, non-working or damaged stuff - see huge list - computers, cameras, office equipment, multimedia, entertainment electronics, portable electronics, home and garden, video games, sporting goods, nonfiction books, and musical instruments can be dropped off at Marcus High School's period recycling program. Marcus turns these items in to various groups for cash back to support the school! You can get more details about what can be dropped off by checking this link: http://mhs.lisd.net/news/worddocs/Recycling.pdf

E-waste - seems the Marcus program would be better since it provides money to the school but they may not take all the same stuff and the dates of this event may work better for you. Flower Mound Recycles Day is May 17, 2008 from 8:00am - 12:00pm at Geralt Park. Here's a link that describes what they take. It looks like the date on the flyer isn't updated but you can see the details of the event from the flyer. http://www.flower-mound.com/kfmb/flowermoundrecyclesday.pdf

Document Shredding - we can put regular copy paper that has been printed on in our recycle bins. I'm planning on getting a separate trash can for it to put next to my desk in my home office because this is something I always recycled in my office at work but for some reason I forget to recycle at home. Often however we are concerned about personal information on our documents. The town of Flower Mound is providing free shredding services at Flower Mound Recycles Day on May 17, 2008 from 8:00am- 12:00pm at Geralt Park. Each resident can bring up to three boxes of papers to be shredded and recycled. They ask that the boxes not contain binders. You should remove the paper from the binders for shredding.

Used prescription glasses - Lewisville Lions Club collects glasses for those in need at multiple locations a list of which can be found in this link: http://www.lewisvillelions.org/glasses.htm. Super Target in Flower Mound is one of the locations where glasses can be dropped off.

Grocery Bags - if we bring out own paper, plastic or cloth grocery bags to Kroger they will give a $.05 discount per bag they don't have to use. Whole Foods also offers a discount. This one isn't about giving stuff to others to reuse but about us not continue to consume grocery bags as a disposable. If you are interested in cloth bags folks recommended checking out the following: Costco 6 for 4 dollars; reusablebags.com; Tom Thumb has them for $.99/bag; Wal-Mart and Kroger sell them too.

Miscellaneous - You can donate goods to a number of charities. Two that have pickup service from your home are the Salvation Army 214-630-5611 and CCA 972-219-HELP. Goodwill and CCA have local drop off stores. Consult your tax professional. With an itemized list and a certified receipt from these registered charities you may be eligible for a tax deduction for the value of the goods you donate.Everything and anything including hard to get rid of stuff like mattresses, broken appliances, left over building supplies - Try freecycle.org. You can list your item and someone local who wants it will pick it up. Most pickups are driveway or porch pickup so you don't even necessarily have to set up a pick-up appt. It's very easy and even broken things surprisingly end up with a home with someone handy!

Christmas Tree and Turkey Oil Recycling - Annually by the town at Geralt park. Check the web site for details http://www.flower-mound.com/kfmb/index.php. This year until Jan 13 between 8:00am and 3:00pm

Hazardous Materials - periodically the town has hazardous material collection days. I don't know when the next one is but I think they have a couple a year so hang onto your hazardous stuff and wait to see when the next one is. They collect pesticides, paint, batteries, etc. If you want to get rid of this stuff prior to the collection day you can call the town and they will give you a voucher to pay for depositing the stuff in a hazardous landfill. I did this once and I can't remember exactly where the landfill was but it was pretty far away (an hour I think) so I decided going forward to just put a little bin in my garage to hold this stuff until the next hazardous collection in Flower Mound. For paint specifically, you can open the cans let them air dry until they are hard and then put them in the regular trash. There is a product sold at hardware stores that you mix into the the paint to dry it up faster if you are trying to do this. We had to do this once when we were moving and couldn't wait for a collection day.