Recycle Everyday Household Items

Recycle Your Car

The Car Donation Wizard website will connect with any one of a long list of not-for-profit charities that accept cars as donated contributions. All donations are tax-deductible. Go to Car Donation Wizard.

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

  • Delaware County Solid Waste Authority, Rose Tree Park - Hunt Club, 1521 N Providence Road (Route Number 252), Media, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm,
  • Any Delaware County Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Events
  • Home Depot or Lowes stores

Batteries

  • Target - all batteries: alkaline, rechargeable, lithium
  • Lowes- all batteries: alkaline, rechargeable, lithium
  • Home Depot stores rechargeable tool batteries only

Cell Phones

  • Delaware County Libraries
  • Delaware County Solid Waste Authority, Rose Tree Park - Hunt Club, 1521 N Providence Road (Route Number 252), Media.
  • Any Delaware County Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Events
  • Media Elementary School

Televisions

No TVs or computers in borough trash or bulk pick up.

Small Appliances

Textiles, Fabric, or Clothing

These charities re-sell used clothes at a low price with profits going to charitable causes. If items are too damaged to be reused as clothing they are sold to the rag industry, which re-purposes the fabric into a variety of products.

Note: Green Drop is a business that collects items on behalf of client charities such as Purple Heart.

Air Conditioners

Working Air Conditioners:

Community Action Agency of Delaware County. Call 610-874-8451 to schedule a pickup or drop-off.

Non-Working Air Conditioners:

Air conditioners cannot be picked up by the Borough and will have to be recycled through one of the vendors listed under small appliances (above).

Other Recyclers

  • Ridge Metals, Conshohocken, 610-828-5553. For a fee.
  • H and R Trucking, 610-833-2836, will come to your house and pick it up for a fee.
  • Ecovanta, Philadelphia, 215-921-7507. For a fee.

Hard to Recycle Items

  • Earth 911 Website, a comprehensive search directory of local recycling and proper disposal options for a variety of materials, including hard-to-recycle items such as fluorescent tubes.
  • Rabbit Recycling, an on-demand and subscription service for households and businesses to recycle, reuse, and upcycle hard-to-recycle materials!