See our new SLVEC Recycling Map which you can view online or pickup at various locations
Batteries - WSB Computer Services, Colorado Recycles in Monte Vista, SLV Regional Landfill
Big items - Still usable furniture, mattresses, call your local thrift store (such as Rainbow's End), most will pick up! Also see Waste Free SLV info below.
Check out this website about recycling/disposing of mattresses:
Big items - Non re-usable furniture, mattresses - Call your local waste hauler. Alamosa has two big item pickups a year. Waste Management will pick up if called.
Cell Phones - SLV Regional Landfill, Walmart in Alamosa, also check with your local service provider.
Electronics - WSB Computer Services in Alamosa (fee) - 21 Craft Drive. www.wsbcs.net/recycle.
(719) 589-8940.
Lightbulbs - SLV Regional Landfill
Metals - Colorado Recycling in Monte Vista, or Star Steel in Estrella
Motor Oil (DIY) - SLV Regional Landfill
Paint - Monte Vista Coop, Habitat for Humanity Store in Alamosa
Pill Bottles (#2, white) - Walmart pharmacy
Plastic Baling Twine/Hay Strings - Big R in Alamosa, Monte Vista Coop in Monte Vista,
SLV Region Landfill
Plastic Shopping Bags or Plastic Film (clean) - Walmart, Safeway, City Market in Alamosa; check your local grocery store.
Tires - Ace in Your Pocket (fee) in Alamosa.
Local Recycler information:
Alamosa Recycling Center (Drop off center: City of Alamosa)
1130 Old Airport Rd., Alamosa
Keith Price, Recycling Coordinator (719) 937-8358
Pat Steenburg, Public Works Director, (719) 589-6631
Colorado Recycling
(Drop off and pick up)
1567 U.S. Hwy 160 E, Monte Vista, CO 81144
(719) 852-6131
Louis Gallegos
Britney Gallegos, (719) 580-0507 (cell)
Recycles: All metals, batteries, vehicles, telecommunications wires
Ship to Capital Scrap Metals in Santa Fe
Muley’s MDS Trash Service
(Curbside pickup: Mineral & Rio Grande Counties)
P.O. Box 368, Creede, CO 81130
(719) 658-3060
John & Melissa Graham
San Luis Valley Regional Landfill
(Drop off)
P.O. Box 861
1600 CR 44
Monte Vista, CO 81144
(719) 852-3810
Landfill Manager: Jim Clare
Star Steel & Supply
(Drop off and pick up)
(719) 589-5385
All metals: ferrous & non-ferrous (nonmagnetic). Will pay $60/ton for steel and scrap metal.
Waste free SLV
(Fee. Drop off at Saguache Landfill; Pick up available in Crestone, Baca, Saguache, South Fork, Del Norte)
P.O. Box 886, South Fork, CO 81154
(719) 588-2703 (Bill Burch)
Cardboard, metals, glass, couches, mattresses, plastics #1 #2, fibers, bubble wrap, shrink wrap, chickboard, paper milk cartons.
WSB eRecyclers
(Drop off, fee)
21 Craft Drive, Alamosa
(719) 589-8940
Jenine Manesiotis (VP)
Electronics, batteries. See flyer here.
Adams State University Facilities
(Drop off for ASU Students & Staff)
Rodney Martinez
www.adams.edu/sustainability (EARTH website)
Recycling goes to Alamosa Recycling Center
Ace in Your Pocket
Tires - (Drop off - fee)
Stacy Peters
(719) 587-0191
Habitat For Humanity
Aluminum cans (Drop off sites throughout Alamosa),
Re-usable items - see Habitat for Humanity ReStore
Great Sand Dunes National Park (Drop off bins in amphitheater, campgrounds)
#1-7 plastic, aluminum cans, glass, steel cans, propane bottles
Picked up by Upper Arkansas Valley Recyclers in Salida
Recycle 20,000 lbs/yr
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For more information, please call or email Kristina at kristina@slvec.org or (719) 588-5127.