TO RECYCLE YOUR GLASS, GO TO 420 E 2ND ST 

Glass Recycling

Glass has no place in our system, that's why we ask you to keep it out of the garbage.  If we receive glass into the plant within the garbage, it's abrasive to our machines, and if it gets over to the power plant, it creates slag in the boilers -- leading to costly removal!

Slag on boiler walls

Place your container glass into the openings on the top of the BRIGHT YELLOW BIN; it will be picked up and taken to the Resource Recovery Plant to be recycled into new jars/bottles or fiberglass insulation at Ripple Glass in Kansas City, Missouri.  Please take your bag with you - only glass should go into the bin.

What is "container glass?"  It's bottles, jars, nail polish (don't worry about polish in them, or the lid), perfume bottles, drinking glasses you can see through, glass plates you can see through, even candle jars with a bit of wax still in the bottom are acceptable.  Pyrex baking dishes, ceramic mugs, and glass you cannot see through are not accceptable.

Look for these YELLOW (not purple as stated above) bins at the locations listed below:

Weekly Pickup

• Ames Fareway, 619 Burnett, northwest corner of parking lot
• Ames Fareway, 3619 Stange Road, southwest corner of parking lot
• Ames Aldi's, 108 S 5th Street, west side of the building
• Ames HyVee Gas Station, 636 Lincoln Way, west of the building in the parking lot
• Ames HyVee Gas Station, 4018 Lincoln Way, west side of the building
• Nevada, Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church, 701 11th Street, northeast corner of parking lot
• Ames Wheatsfield Cooperative, 413 Northwestern Avenue, south of the store
• Slater, Highway 210 & Tama Street, at the Heart of Iowa trailhead north of the school

Bi-Weekly Pickup

• Huxley City Hall, 515 N Main Avenue, northwest parking area
• Story City, 306 Washington Street, northwest corner of the store parking lot
• Ames Resource Recovery Plant, 420 E 2nd St. (northeast corner of the building)

Monthly Pickup

• Ames Green Hills, 2205 Green Hills Drive, north side
• Roland, 301 E Walnut
• Maxwell, behind the Community Center

On-Call only:

• USDA, 2000 Dayton Avenue (not for public use)
• Ames Prairie Moon Winery, 3801 W 190th Street