City Of Houston Recycling Drop Off Facility

I give this facility a 5 star rating for the facility. I give the City of Houston zero stars for not having recycling pick up in the city. Back to my facility review. This a conveniently located recycle center off of Washington Ave. You do have to separate all of your different colored glasses which sometimes gives me a bit of anxiety because I struggle to tell the difference between green and brown wine bottles sometimes. The facility is generally clean and easy to navigate around. It is pretty spread out so if you are recycling multiple types of recyclable goods you will either be lugging it around or just driving from dumpster to dumpster. I am so happy that this place is so near my house and a lot of other houses in our area. I just hope everyone is doing their part.

This is where I bring all of my recycling because they do not collect from my house. It is super convenient, and I am glad it is so easy. If you care to separate before hand, this is the breakdown:
–Glass: Brown, Green, and Clear (all in different containers)
–Metals (aluminum and steel go together)
–Cardboard (they want the boxes flattened)
–Newspapers and Magazine (they go together)
–Plastics (They all go together)
The hardest part for me is deciding to go. Once you get there, it takes five minutes to put everything in its proper place even if you haven’t separated ahead of time. This place is not manned, so it is a little dark and creepy at night even for me. During the day it’s great. If you have anything to recycle, this is a great, self-​serve place.

I am just a glass recycler since I have curbside pickup for everything else. This place is close to my home, so I will come here, but I prefer RecyclExpress. These bins don’t have the nice slide for your glass, so people will miss when pitching in their glass which creates a mess! That being said, be careful driving the lot.

Convenient location for those in the Heights. Drive, park, and for goodness sakes please please please turn off your car engine… then proceed to dump your recyclable goods in the labeled dumpsters. Watch out for the potholes and unleveled payment on the south entrance. The West U recycling location is much more thought out but this place will have to do. I wish they had a bin for general garbage, too many people leave garbage laying around if they can’t find the proper bin… like purple/​blue vodka bottles.

This is my go to spot for dropping off my recyclables! I love that the bins are labeled but there’s still people who dump things in the wrong bin. Talk about being LAZY.
Anyways there’s a friendly homeless man named Lee who will help you take your recyclables to the right bins. Please go ahead and let him and in the meantime, find some change, dollars, food, anything you might have to spare to give him. It definitely saves me a lot of time with Lee helping me out.

What’s wrong with investing in green jobs, Solyndra aside? Recycling is good for the environment, the unemployment rate is high, yet recycling pick-​up in my neighborhood occurs every other week. Other Houstonians have NO curbside recycling program! A tragedy.
Luckily, this place isn’t too far from the SuperTarget or my home. It’s basically an empty parking lot full of dumpsters. The city website says it’s open from 8 – 8. There doesn’t seem to be an actual sign labeling the lot, but look for an opening in the chain link fence off Center west of Harvard and an «Entrance» sign and green dumpsters. You can drop off plastics, glass, paper, and cardboard. It was steadily busy as I was emptying my trunk o’ cardboard from my furniture delivery. It warms my heart to know that others are taking that extra step to keep their recyclables out of the landfills.

With places like this… there is no excuse not to recycle! Open ²⁴⁄₇ it’s easy in easy out! Labeled, separate trash containers for your recyclables. If you dont have city service, drop by here!

Thank God for a conveniently located recycling center. Just drive and dump. It’s been open every time we stop by which is always during daylight. Sometimes, there’s a vagabond-​type dude named Lee who will sort all your recycling for you. We either give him a few bucks or buy him some Jack-​in-​the-​Box when we don’t have cash. Not as easy as the Westpark Center which has workers sorting and dumping the stuff for you but better than nothing. Now I just need to convince my HOA to install curbside pick-​up in my subdivision.

I found my new favorite hotspot in the Washington area! No loud music, no douche bags … well… and at the end of the day I know I did my little part in saving the earth. Woot! Woot!
The center is so easy — just drive up, park to the side, each bin is labeled for your convenience, sad that it wasn’t busy — but good thing for me since I didn’t have to wait.
No more collecting recyclables for months on end just to go in circles in Houston with no center in sight! I’m excited!

Serious stress relief here.
You can bring your glass bottles and throw them into the large containers and hear them break. It’s awesome.
It’s super convenient. I feel lucky to have this center in my ‘hood.
Everything is well labled and easy to get to.

Went today to drop off a pick-​up load of recycle items that we had collected and separated over the past month. When we arrived the driver of a trash compactor truck asked us to put everything but bottles in the truck. It was obvious these items were going to the landfill because all the site recycle containers were filled to capacity. This has happened to us on more than one occasion.

I’m lucky to have this recycling spot so close to home. This drop off site is deeper than it is wide. If you blink, you might miss it– the entry is about as wide as a driveway. Be careful turning in since the pavement needs major repair work. Parking can be tricky because there isn’t any– luckily there’s another entrance/​exit on Harvard.
Like any drop off site, each bin is labeled:
–Paper: Newspaper, magazines, office paper
–Cardboard: boxes must be flattened with packing materials removed
–Glass: food and beverage bottles and jars (no ceramics or plate glass)
–Plastic: bottles and jugs (#1, #2, #3, #5 & #7 only — marked on the bottom)
–Aluminum and tin cans
Sort accordingly.
They will NOT take:
Packing peanuts — UPS store will take these
Print cartridges — FedEx Kinko’s or Staples accept these
Rechargeable batteries– Lowe’s will take these at the blue drop box at the entrance.
CFL energy star light bulbs — Home Depot takes these

Tires, oil, & scrap — see
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Seven years of guilt for not recycling have been assuaged by this magnificent Drop Off Facility. Gone are the horrible dreams of the ozone disappearing and it being my fault! Let it be some other persons nightmare now! Ha! Take that environmental night tremors!
I was so happy to hear about these bins. It’s been, well, seven years since I’ve had a recycling center near me. Burning through a large amount of cardboard with all of the packages I receive (some of them legal), it has really irked me all this time there wasn’t a center closer to me.
If you are looking for this place – it’s right behind Star Pizza on Washington. Nothing fancy – just a bunch of bins. Yes, you may have to walk from bin to bin (the horror!) in order to recycle properly, but it’s a small price to pay for a guilt-​free conscience.
The only thing that sucks is that I’ve noticed people will dump trash or not sort their recycling. That’s an über sucky thing to do. Tsk tsk. Doesn’t detract from the stars here though. Any attempt to minimize the size of a landfill is a surefire winner in my book.
Recycling dreams do come true!

Being in Austin for so long, I realized Houston is about as Green as the blue man group, I couldn’t believe the big midtown apartment complex I live in doesn’t offer any recycling! So I was super-​excited to find this place after some googling.
Alex W’s review is very useful and wish I found it beforehand for 2 reasons
1) Armed (and possibly dangerous) with an erroneous internet map I drove back and forth on center street trying to find this place (or any building numbers along this street for that matter). I only happened to see it across the road since a car was pulling into it. Coming from Studemont it will be on your right hand side before an apartment complex. Take a look at Alex’s photos, because the signage is not eye-​catching.
2) Although I went in the afternoon, thanks to the city of Houston’s recycling website I was under the impression this place was open «24÷7» as it states on there. It would have been a pain to come before or after work and have it closed.
Other than that this place is great! It’s quick, easy and convenient. And most importantly it saves me from coming into work looking like a bag lady as I try to sneak all my home recyclables into our bins!

Haha thanks Alex W. for posting this review. I rarely remember to review non-​restaurant places.
This is pretty nice to have close by. It doesn’t beat recycling pick-​up though. I think the waitlist for that is longer than the waitlist for proper curbs.
It’s a pretty nice place, it’s great how generous the hours are. The only thing that slightly irks me and I have to dock a star for is that the bins aren’t really logically laid out. You get the hang of which bins are where after awhile, but it’d be nice if there was a better flow to things or if the bins were more consistently marked. Maybe they should use a green bin for green glass, brown bin for brown glass, grey bin for aluminum cans… haha, one can wish.

Go GREEN monster! No… not the jealous beast or the gigantic wall at Fenway Park, but the green recycling brute. I have been living around this area for awhile now and it peeves me that there is not any recycling options. Townhouses and apartment complexes in the Rice Military & Heights kingdom build up mountains of trash.
Fear not! There are now are many metal, jumbo behemoths to gobble up your unwanted plastics, cans, glass, cardboards, and paper. This recycling drop off facility is filled with dumpsters for your recyclable goods. Each oversized trash can is marked with a specific material that may be deposited. You drive up, drop your stuff off, and drive off. Easy peasy lemony squeezy.
The recycling center is located on the Northwest corner of Center street and Harvard street. I could not find the exact address. I found this gem randomly as I was driving around exploring the neighborhood. It is open from 7am-​6pm or pretty much when there is daylight. It is in a developing neighborhood, so the city of Houston minded our safety when creating this Earth-​saving patch of land.