Blue Goblin transports the densified Styrofoam from CHaRM to Dow Chemical, where it is made into home insulation.

WestRock Industries believes that sustainability is the fiber of their company. Mixed paper and shredded paper collected at CHaRM can be processed five to seven times and made into new boxes.

Old bikes gathering dust in the garage? CHaRM can help with that too! We take your old bikes and give them to Free Bikes 4 Kidz (FB4K).FB4K is a non-profit organization geared toward helping all kids ride into a happier, healthier childhood by providing bikes to those most in need. CHaRM donates gently used bikes and FB4K organizes volunteers to clean and refurbish them to give way to kids in need.

Novus Solutions works every day to ensure that your obsolete electronics equipment are handled with integrity. They keep customers’ data secure with individualized processes that fit each customer’s needs. Electronics collected at CHaRM are reused, if possible, or deconstructed and parts are recycled.

Clean Harbors believes that sustainability is their responsibility to the environment, society and the economy. Paint and most household chemicals are made into biofuels. A few chemicals, fertilizers and medications that cannot be reused or recycled are incinerated in an environmentally safe manner.

Clean Harbors believes that sustainability is their responsibility to the environment, society and the economy. Paint and most household chemicals are made into biofuels. A few chemicals, fertilizers and medications that cannot be reused or recycled are incinerated in an environmentally safe manner.

CHaRM takes your old mattresses and partners with the Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta to redistribute the mattresses to disaster areas. Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta takes the used mattresses, dismantles them, sanitizes them and then restuffs the mattresses to make them as good as new! In 2019, more than 1500 mattresses donated by CHaRM were given to families that lost their homes in the California wildfires and hurricanes in the Gulf Coast.

CHaRM partners with CompostNow for residential compost, including plant materials, fruit and vegetable scraps, pasta, bread, cereal, coffee grounds, tea bags, paper towels, pizza boxes, egg shells, etc. The compost collected at CHaRM is shared with local farmers.

Liberty Tire Recycling is a leading North American conservation enterprise. For nearly two decades, they have been dedicated to finding new and better ways to RECLAIM, RECYCLE and REUSE scrap tires. Tires collected at CHaRM are made into mulch or processed into a liquid that fills potholes in our city streets.

Used clothes and textiles that are dropped off at CHaRM are repurposed as much as possible by America’s Thrift Stores.  They resell those items and share their profits with local organizations like Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). Used textiles that cannot be resold are repurposed into insulation, dog beds or rags.

CHaRM partners with Fulton Metal Recycling to recycle metals. Metals are melted down and made into new metal products. Did you know that by recycling scrap metal, rather than using virgin materials, CO2 emissions are reduced by 58%?

WestRock Industries believes that sustainability is the fiber of their company. Mixed paper and shredded paper collected at CHaRM can be processed five to seven times and made into new boxes.

Plastic #1 goes to Indorama to be made into more beverage bottles.

Plastic #2 goes to KW Plastic to be converted into new plastic.

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Plastics #4, 5, 6, plastic film, straws go to Nexus Fuels to make into biofuel and more plastic.

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