At Home ReSource, we want to provide avenues for people to depart with their no longer needed materials responsibly. Our Reuse store takes a wide variety of items, but we can’t take everything. Sometimes you may be wondering “what do I do with ______?” and don’t know the answer. To help answer your question, we’re offering a tool called Missoula Waste Wizard to give you options of what to do with your items. Using the search box below, type in an item you’re looking to part ways with to find the best options for reuse, recycle, or disposal. If the item you’re looking for is not listed, you can suggest it as a new item for us to add to the database.
Hard to Recycle Materials
We’re continuing to work to offer more options to recycle traditionally hard to recycle materials. These items often require special processing and are best if kept out of the landfill.
Fluorescent Tube Lightbulbs
Home ReSource now offers 2- and 4-foot fluorescent lightbulb recycling for $2.50 per bulb (t4, t8, t12). Bring your bulbs in to our store for recycling! Properly recycling your fluorescent lightbulbs is important because each lightbulb contains a small amount mercury. Keeping mercury out of our ground and aquifer will keep our areas healthy.
CFLs
We are now accepting CFLs and other small fluorescent lightbulbs. Prices range from $1.50-$2.50/bulb.
Battery Recycling
Many batteries contain rare earth minerals that are better to be recycled and reused than thrown in a landfill. And the once common term ‘disposable battery’ for alkaline batteries has added new toxins to our landfill.
Accepted batteries include:
Alkaline: AAA, AA, C, D, 9V
Lithium: Tool batteries, laptop batteries, cell phone batteries. Batteries must be under 300 Watt-hours (Wh)
Silver Button Batteries
We only accept batteries that are removable from devices (ie no cell phones). All connection points of batteries must be taped with clear tape (ie Scotch tape) to prevent fire danger.
We do not accept wet batteries of any kind.
There is a $3 minimum on batteries. Weights are rounded up to the nearest pound.
Household Chemical Disposal at Home ReSource
Appointments available!
We are working with the Missoula Valley Water Quality District to offer year-round household chemical collection, reuse, and disposal options for Missoula. Formally known as Haz-Waste days, this appointment, fee based program will give our community disposal options for unneeded household chemicals and keep them out of our groundwater and landfill. Find out more here!
Thank you for the support!
Home ReSource is grateful to our sponsors for making Zero-Waste systems and tools accessible for our entire community:
