Ecology Action
Austin's Recycling Center
Ecology Action is Austin's downtown recycling center. We are located at Ninth Street and IH-35 (on the southbound access road).
We are open to drop recycling materials 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. (Please don't leave materials we do NOT take after hours).
We are Staffed 9am-5pm SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Except on major holidays and May Day (May 1st).
Refer to this map for strong hints about driving to the center.
Photos by Jeff Heimsath
BRING YOUR:
- Newspaper
- Paper and Pressed Cardboard (like cereal boxes and egg cartons)
- Aluminum Cans, Foil, and Pie plates
- Tin Cans
- Metal
- Plastic (#1 thru #7). Included are bottles, jars, drink containers, and trays.
- Glass Bottles and Jars
- Corrugated Cardboard
- Clean and dry plastic bags
- Small Amounts of Residential Telephone Books, Hard & Soft cover books
- DURING BUSINESS HOURS: Cellphones, clean and dry plastic bags
Help us by recycling right!
Please sort your materials into our clearly marked bins AND don't leave us with any items we do NOT take.
If bags of unsorted items are left, and deemed trash WE WILL THROW THEM AWAY. So please sort your materials.
LEAVE THESE AT HOME!
- STYROFOAM: egg cartons, logs, peanuts.. none!
- TRASH: If we don't take it please DON'T leave it!
- Large Commercial Quantities of Telephone Books
- Hard and Soft Cover Books
- HAZARDOUS WASTE: chemicals, oil, detergents etc.
- plate glass
- Inkjet & Toner cartridges
- Pyrex anything
- LIGHT BULBS(including compact fluorescent)
- WAXED CONTAINERS: milk, soy milk, juice etc.
When items are left that we do not take it creates TRASH, health hazards and more work for the employees.
It costs us money, time and resources in trying to deal with them.
We take a lot of household items but we ask that you please take responsibility for your own waste.