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Brown Paper Bags

Name/Address/Hours Comments
King Soopers - S. College
2325 S. College, Fort Collins
Phone: (970) 482-8855
Hours: Open 24 hours

Accepts clean, dry plastic and paper grocery bags and aluminum cans for recycling.

Consider re-using your plastic grocery bags when you shop (or better yet, replace them with canvass totes). Once the plastic bags are no longer usable, it is time to recycle them. *See Plastic Bag Recycling for more information.*

(Ask your local grocery store about inclcuding other types of plastic bags or materials, such as dry cleaning bags, newspaper sleeves, Ziplock-type bags, and shrink wrap.)

 

King Soopers - JF Kennedy Pwky
4503 JF Kennedy Pkwy, Fort Collins
Phone: 970-223-5759
Hours: Open 24 hours

Accepts plastic and paper grocery bags and aluminum cans for recycling.

Accepts clean, dry plastic grocery plastic bags for recycling.

Consider re-using your plastic grocery bags when you shop (or better yet, replace them with canvass totes). Once the plastic bags are no longer usable, it is time to recycle them. *See Plastic Bag Recycling for more information.*

(Ask your local grocery store about inclcuding other types of plastic bags or materials, such as dry cleaning bags, newspaper sleeves, Ziplock-type bags, and shrink wrap.)

King Soopers - S. Taft Hill Road
1015 S. Taft Hill Road< #1, Fort Collins
Phone: (970) 221-4943
Hours: Open 24 Hours

Accepts clean, dry plastic and paper grocery bags and aluminum cans for recycling.

Consider re-using your plastic grocery bags when you shop (or better yet, replace them with canvass totes). Once the plastic bags are no longer usable, it is time to recycle them. *See Plastic Bag Recycling for more information.*

(Ask your local grocery store about inclcuding other types of plastic bags or materials, such as dry cleaning bags, newspaper sleeves, Ziplock-type bags, and shrink wrap.)

City of Fort Collins Recycling Drop-off Site
1702 Riverside, Fort Collins (Located in back parking lot of Rivendell School.)
Phone: 970-221-6600
Hours: Monday-Sunday during daylight hours

http://www.fcgov.com/recycling/dropoff.php

Recycles glass and plastic #1 - #7 bottles and jars, tin and aluminum cans (rinse out), aerosol cans (completely empty), cardboard (flattened), corrugated cardboard, non-corrugated boxes (such as cereal boxes and other chipboard), egg cartons, packing, wrapping/tissue paper, low-grade paper, office and shredded paper, brown paper bags, junk mail, magazines, soft-bound manuals and books, telephone books, catalogs, greeting cards, manilla folders, mailing tubes and more. For better recycling results, site offers separate bins for newspaper and inserts and glass.

NO dark of fluorescent colored office paper or fluorescent sticky notes.

Call for more information.

Larimer County Recycling Center
5887 S. Taft Hill Road, Fort Collins
Phone: 970-226-1101
Hours: Mon-Sat, 8am-4:30pm

http://www.larimer.org/solidwaste/recycle.htm

Located near the landfill. This drop-off facility recycles comingled items (glass and plastic #1 - #7 bottles and jars), tin and aluminum cans, aerosol cans (empty completely), newspapers, catalogues, junk mail, magazines, corrugated cardboard, office paper, soft-bound books, cereal boxes, paperboard and low-grade paper.

General Information

Brown paper bags can be put in recycling containers with corrugated cardboard.

Grocery stores frequently have special collection bins for paper and plastic grocery sacks.