Garland County Recycle Center AR 71909

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Chris Aldridge

I wish there was a place like this near me in Atlanta Georgia. The facility is very nice. It is well run and very clean. The staff are friendly and helpful. The one item that they cannot take are florescent light bulbs, whether the long tube bulbs, nor the CFL's that many of us have at home. Doing my part to save the planet one recyclable at a time.

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Mister Eclectico

I have dropped off plastics here many times over the years, often receiving help and a "thank you" from the workers. However, I recently stopped by (4/23/18) to drop off bagged plastics, as I always have, and was greeted with an angry scowl from a man who ignored me when I said hello, and he began yelling for someone named Mark (the manager, as I later found out.) I had already placed some of the bagged plastic into the big plastics bin with the rest of the bags of plastic, and the first guy became irate and told me he didn't want my trash and began pulling my bags out of the bin and throwing them all over the place. You'd think I'd dumped a bag of roadkill into their plastics bin or something by the way he was acting. This Mark guy showed up and told me he didn't want my house trash and that I had glass and non-plastics in my bags. I didn't - it was 100% plastics - and I pointed this out. He told me that if I wanted to leave anything for recycling I would need to sort it all by hand myself into their poorly marked bins, which I have never needed to do before (do they not get paid to do this?) I pointed out that there was already a whole bin full of plastic bags filled with random plastics, just as mine were, and he ignored that, stating that I needed to take my "trash" home. I never got an explanation about why they suddenly wouldn't accept my plastic and they were beyond rude about it, which is a shame, since all I was trying to do was recycle plastic the same way I have for years with no problems. Needless to say, if Mark and his crony are in charge of this place now, I would not recommend it to anyone.

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Donna Williamson

There are bins for each type of material, so plan to spend a few minutes and sort your items ahead of time. They now accept glass, aluminum, corrugated cardboard (but not cereal box style cardboard), paper, steel, plastic (1 and 2 only), electronics, appliances, and batteries. Helpful staff.. ask if you have questions.