Three main comprehensive recycling centers are available to Clary Lakes Residents. Check their websites for hours of operation:

1. Roswell Recycling Center, 11570 Maxwell Road in Alpharetta near Maxwell and Hembree Rd., 8.5 miles away accepts plastic #1 and 2, all plastic bags (except black), glass (clear, brown, green), paper, magazines, junk mail, phone books, corrugated cardboard, cereal boxes and other cardboard, milk cartons and juice boxes, metal (separate into magnetic or non-magnetic), cell phones, rechargeable batteries, printer cartridges, motor oil, electronics, and car tires (fee applies), appliances (sometimes a fee applies).

2. Sandy Springs Recycling Center, 470 Morgan Falls Road, Sandy Springs 8.5 miles away accepts steel and aluminum cans, cardboard, newspaper, magazines, office paper, phone books, glass bottles (clear, green, brown), plastic #1 and #2, rechargeable batteries, cell phones, laser and ink jet cartridges

3. Cobb County Transfer Station at 1897 County Services Parkway, Marietta is 16.5 miles away accepts plastics #1 and #2, steel and aluminum cans, cardboard, junk mail, glass (clear, green, brown), newspaper, magazines, phone books, office paper, and car and truck batteries. Cobb County also offers vegetative waste recycling including stumps, trees, brush, grass and leaves for a minimum fee of $7. This site has a lot of great recycling information!

PlasticShopping Bags are collected at Publix on Johnson Ferry/Shallowford and Wal-Mart on Johnson Ferry.

Junk Mail, Magazines, Catalogs, Office Paper, and Aluminum Cans are collected in dumpsters in the side parking lot at Tritt Elementary School on Post Oak Tritt Road.

Fluorescent Light Bulbs are not accepted at the three recycling centers. They contain mercury and can not be thrown into the regular trash. Our only current option is the collection service at IKEA.

Eye Glasses are accepted at For Eyes near the Home Depot on Roswell Road, just west of Johnson Ferry on Roswell Road, 4101 Roswell Road, Marietta

Styrofoam Packing Peanuts, the S-shaped, dimpled kind only are re-used at the UPS Store near Kroger on Shallowford/Johnson Ferry.

Styrofoam Packaging (egg cartons, etc.) is collected at Publix on Johnson Ferry/Shallowford

Cell Phones are collected at Staples at 1125 Woodstock Road, Roswell and 945 North Point Drive in Alpharetta

Batteries - used alkaline batteries may be thrown in your regular trash. Rechargeable Batteries of all kinds, Lithium, NiCad, button cell, are collected at Batteries Plus at 755B Holcomb Bridge Road, in Alpharetta, just east of Alpharetta Highway on Holcomb Bridge Road

Rechargeable Power Tool Batteries (no other kinds of batteries) are accepted at Home Depot locations.

Car and truck batteries are required to be taken back by locations that sell them.

Paint - there is no household hazardous waste collection site in Georgia (how sad). Representatives from the EPA tell you that you should mix clay kitty litter in with the paint to dry it out, then throw out with your regular trash.

Christmas Trees are collected at Home Depot after Christmas. Also, if you purchase a tree from Pikes Nursery, then they will come and pick up your tree after Christmas for a small fee. Watch this web site and your e-mail for reminders about these services.