Far West Fibers

I have been going to FWF for years. They take almost everything including cooking oil and electronics. Today one of the fork lift drivers, seeing that I had half of my truck full of paper and cardboard, stopped with the bin he was about to rotate out and helped me unload! These folks go the extra mile. They ask for a small donation of $ 3. Don’t forget your wallet, this is a bargain!

My first time I went here, I was lost on the procedure. Within seconds, an employee cane to my box van and instructed me to drive up to the weighing scale until the light flashed green and I was good to drive inside to the dump.
The customer service was really great. I was dumping 5 heavy dental chairs out the back of the box van, plus a dozen or so wooden pallets. The employees came and helped me unload the last of the chairs and they also took the wooden pallets, free of charge. They kept me company when I was dumping, providing great customer service.
After the dump, I weighed out the truck after I was instructed to. And I left with cash in hand. It was just a good experience. I got paid extra while on the clock for my job. How could I complain? I will always revisit here when I have scrap metal or wooden pallets to give.

The things that they accept vary according to what there is a market for, but right now (and the last time I went in summer 2013), they did accept blocks of styrofoam, both white and colored (just not styrofoam peanuts). They also have bins for clothing and shoes, assorted metals (including wire hangers), «bulky rigid» plastic, all plastics numbered 1 – 7, and plastic film (which includes the stretchy kinds like grocery bags, ziploc bags and bubble wrap, but not crinkly bags like cereal bags or chip bags).
It’s great because I can get rid of most of the not-​curbside recyclable junk that accumulates in our apartment in a single trip that isn’t a trip to the landfill.

This is really simple:
Far West Fibers is where you go to recycle (most of the) the stuff you can’t recycle curbside:
— Ferrous and non-​ferrous metals (coat hangers, odd pieces of just about any metal, m sheet metal, etc)
— Rigid plastic (keg cups, lids, buckets, clam-​shell packaging, various hard plastic bits
— Plastic film (like plastic grocery and ziplock bags, chips bags, etc),
— Electronics (Old TV’s, printers, and the like)
— Crayons
FWF also will take the stuff you do recycle curbside, in case you have too much or just want to unload everything in one fell swoop: Brown, green and clear glass; mixed paper; aluminum cans; milk jugs; etc.
While they don’t take styrofoam or paint, you can take that stuff up to Metro.
They don’t make $$ recycling everything that they take, so a $ 3 donation is requested but not required.
Cut your garbage costs, keep that plastic out of the ocean, help make the world a better place. Recycle your shit here. Especially those plastic bags.