Eleven sites · Metro Detroit

The bin says no. We don't.

Glass, textiles, electronics and hard plastics — the four things curbside collection refuses almost everywhere, taken six days a week for nothing.

Find your nearest What we take

Practical

Open: Tue–Sun, 9–6
Cost: Free, always
Sorted?: Not required
Proof of address: Never

Where they are

Eleven sites, none more than twenty minutes out.

City East West North

A diagram, not a map — sites are placed by relationship to each other, not by coordinate. Addresses and hours are in the table below, and those are exact.

Every site

Addresses and hours.

A four-stream stainless recycling station on a path, four labeled apertures across the top. — The same unit at every site. Four apertures, labeled, and a locked cabinet underneath.

Corktown1712 Bagley St, Detroit 48216 — also the Saturday repair cafeTue–Sun 9–6

Eastern Market2934 Russell St, Detroit 48207 — Shed 4 loading bay, enter from AdelaideTue–Sun 8–6

Milwaukee Junction6410 Woodward Ave, Detroit 48202 — largest site, takes bulk textilesTue–Sun 9–7

Southwest4120 Vernor Hwy, Detroit 48209 — Spanish spoken every dayTue–Sun 9–6

Hamtramck3011 Caniff St, Hamtramck 48212Wed–Sun 10–6

Grosse Pointe17150 Kercheval Ave, Grosse Pointe 48230Wed–Sat 10–5

Dearborn13500 Michigan Ave, Dearborn 48126 — Arabic spoken every dayTue–Sun 9–6

Redford25940 Grand River Ave, Redford 48240Thu–Sun 10–5

Ferndale440 E Nine Mile Rd, Ferndale 48220Tue–Sun 9–6

Royal Oak1800 N Main St, Royal Oak 48067Wed–Sun 10–6

Warren22300 Van Dyke Ave, Warren 48089Thu–Sun 10–5

Close on a heap of mixed recyclables: cans, cartons, film plastic, paper and a tangle of string lights. — Cans, cartons, film plastic, paper and a tangle of string lights. The lights are the problem — they wrap the sorting screens and stop the line.

What we take

Four things, and one honest list of what we can't.

Glass

Bottles, jars, drinking glass, window glass and mirror. Rinsed is kinder but not required, and lids can stay on. This is over half of everything we take by weight, and it is the one material Detroit curbside will not touch at all.

6,300 tons last year

Textiles

Clothing, bedding, towels, offcuts. Torn and stained is fine — it becomes insulation.

2,100 tons

Electronics

Anything with a plug or a battery. Data-bearing devices are wiped in front of you if you ask.

1,400 tons

Hard plastics

Crates, toys, garden furniture, buckets — the rigid things no curbside stream accepts.

1,440 tons

Not this: household waste, food, garden waste, tires, paint, solvents, medical sharps, or anything pressurised. Detroit Public Works takes the first three; the rest need a hazardous-waste day, and we will tell you when the next one is.

Before you drive

Check we take it.

Tell us what you have and we will name the two nearest sites that will accept it — and say so plainly if none of them will.