Great Wood Chip Giveaway
06/25/2010 to 06/26/2010  8:00 am to 3:00 pm  (see below)
If you need some FREE mulch to use for weed control and to reduce evaporation, you are in luck. The City of Joplin will give away FREE wood chips on Friday June 25th & Saturday June 26th from 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM. Bring your truck, trailer, or containers to the mulch site where city employees will load the wood chips for you. This free event is open to everyone, regardless of residency. The “great wood chip giveaway” site is located 6/10 (six tenths) of a mile north of the intersection of Belle Center Road on North Schifferdecker. Look for the signs and turn onto the driveway on the west side of Schifferdecker.

EARTH DAY
04/16/2010 to 04/17/2010  9:00 AM to 3:00  Joplin Recycling Center, 1310 West A Street
This Spring 2010 tire drop off will mark the eighth year the event has been co-sponsored by The Empire District Electric Company. The tire portion is open to all Joplin residents, Joplin landlords and all residential Empire District Electric Company customers. Up to ten tires per household will be accepted. Tires must be clean, with or without rims, and must be automotive type only. Commercial, large truck or racecar tires will not be accepted.

Great Wood Chip--FALL
11/06/2009 to 11/07/2009  8 am - 3 pm  6/10 mile North on Belle Center
If you need some FREE mulch to use for weed control and to reduce evaporation in that garden, you are in luck. The City of Joplin will give away FREE wood chips on Friday AND Saturday, November 6th & 7th from 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM. Bring your truck or trailer to the mulch site where city employees will load the wood chips for you. This free event is open to everyone, regardless of residency. The “great wood chip giveaway” site is located 6/10 (six tenths) of a mile north of the intersection of Belle Center Road on North Schifferdecker Road. Look for the sign and turn onto the driveway on the west side of Schifferdecker.

Winter Hours for Recycling Center
11/03/2009 to 03/31/2010  Winter Hours  Joplin Recycling Center
The City of Joplin announces that the Recycling Center will switch to its winter hours of operation effective November 3rd. These winter hours will run through the end of March and are designed to coincide with the daylight-saving time schedule. The new hours are 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM on Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday hours are always 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM all year.

Summer Hours for Recycling Center
04/01/2008 to 10/31/2008  Time Change  (see below)
The City of Joplin announces that the Recycling Center will switch to its summer hours of operation effective April 1st. These summer hours will run through the end of October. The new hours are 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM on Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM all year.

Annual Leaf Pickup
11/20/2007 to 04/30/2008  8:00 am  Residential Areas
The City of Joplin has announced that the annual leaf program has ended effective April 2, 2008, with all parts of the residential areas being canvassed. Residents that still have leaves are asked to use alternative methods such as bringing their leaves to the Joplin Public Works Center at 1301 West 2nd Street. The collection bins are open all year...24 hours a day. Please, no tree limbs or brush.

Another option for leaf disposal is backyard composting. For composting instructions, contact the Recycling Coordinator at 624-0820 Ext. 501.

Free Welded Wire Backyard Compost Bins
04/21/2006 to 04/22/2006  9am to 1pm  Joplin Recycling Center, 1310 W. A Street
(Corner of A Street and Porter Avenue)
Earth Day Celebration Activity
--Free Homeowner's Composting Guide
--Free Composting Demonstration
--Demonstration courtesy of Ozark Gateway Master Gardeners
--Bins can be picked up at the Joplin Recycling Center

To celebrate Earth Day, the City of Joplin Recycling Department will host FREE events to educate and encourage citizens to utilize environmental-friendly activities in their daily lives.

Also during that day, an Appliance, Tire and Electronics Collection will take place at the Recycling Center from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Mary Anne Phillips, Recycling Coordinator, stressed that this Compost Bin Give Away, and the Appliance, Tire, and Electronics Collection is a two-day event. The Recycling Center will not accept tires, appliances and electronics on a routine basis, but can advise residents on proper disposal procedures.

Holiday Schedules 2005
12/26/2005 to 01/31/2006  Posted Hours  Various Locations
The City of Joplin Recycling Center accepts many discarded holiday items including, wrapping paper (no ribbons please) boxes, bottles, cans, cards, clean Styrofoam, and packing peanuts. The center will be closed on December 24, 25, and 26 and January 1 and 2. The City of Joplin will have collection points for discarded, live Christmas trees the day after Christmas. Drop-off locations start on December 26th and run through January 31st. Ultimately, the trees will be chipped up for garden mulch. Bring your tree, completely stripped of all decorations, and place it near the Christmas Tree Sign posted at one of the following locations: Old Firehouse at 20th and Murphy Boulevard, west side of parking lot at Humphrey’s Park in the Royal Heights area; Cunningham Park at 26th and Maiden Lane; or the Public Works Center at 1301 West 2nd Street. This year both, Christmas Day and New Years Day fall on a Sunday, therefore there will be no change in the Joplin residential trash schedule.

FREE Tire, Applicance, & Electronics Collection
11/11/2005 to 11/12/2005  09:00 am - 3:00 pm  Joplin Recycling Center
In celebration of America Recycles 2005 and Missouri Recycles Day, the Joplin Recycling Center will host a FREE tire, appliance, and electronics collection. This FREE collection will be held on Friday, November 11th and Saturday, November 12th, from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM at the Joplin Recycling Center. This collection is for automotive tires (with our without rims) limit 10 per household, appliances (with or without Freon), and electronics (such as computers and monitors) limit 10 monitors and 10 televisions per household. Only Joplin residents and Joplin landlords may participate. Items from commercial businesses will not be accepted.

For more information contact Mary Anne @ (417) 624-0820 x501

End-of-Life Electronics
09/23/2005 to 09/24/2005  9:00 am to 3:00 pm  Joplin Recycling Center
The City of Joplin Recycling Department will host a home and business electronic equipment recycling collection. End-of-life electronics (also known as e-waste) will be accepted from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, September 23, and again on Saturday, September 24 at the Joplin Recycling Center, 1310 West A Street. This collection is open to businesses and residents of McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Barton, and Vernon Counties and is funded in part by Region M Solid Waste Management District and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Items that will be accepted are computers, computer speakers, keyboards, computer mice, adding and answering machines, pagers, telephones and cellular telephones, printers, audio and video equipment, cameras, fax machines, other computer peripherals. Monitors and televisions that usually have a $10 disposal fee will, however, be accepted for free due to grant funding (limited to 10). Appliances and photocopiers will not be accepted. Your donations are deductible for income tax purposes. Tax receipts are available on request.

Project Redirectory
09/01/2005 to 10/31/2005  8 am - 5 pm  Various locations
What do you do when the new telephones books are delivered? Option 1: Stack the books in your home or office forever; Option 2: Send the books to a landfill where they will also stay forever; Option 3: Recycle them. Project ReDirectory is the annual event that collects and recycles those old telephone books. This recycling project is sponsored by SBC, Corporation and the City of Joplin Recycling Department. Telephone books can be recycled throughout the year at the Joplin Recycling Center, Neosho Regional Recycle Center, the Southeast Kansas Recycling Center in Pittsburg, Kansas, and for Carthage residents the City of Carthage Recycling and Compost Center. For businesses with over 100 books to recycle, they may schedule a pick up by e-mailing Project.ReDirectory@sbcdo.com. For a list of drop-off locations near you, based on zip codes, call (800) 953-4400. Starting September 30th and running through October 27th, SBC alone will distribute approximately 151,000 directories in the Tri-State area. If 100% of the books were collected for recycling, approximately 2,415 trees could be saved. Recycling helps lengthen the life of landfills and conserves our natural resources. Fun fact…it takes approximately 17 mature trees to produce only one ton of paper. If you have questions, contact Mary Anne Phillips, Recycling Coordinator for the City of Joplin at (417) 624-0820 Ext. 501, or Bobby Gregg at the Neosho center (417) 455-9430, or Check Delp at the Pittsburg center (620) 231-8930, or the City of Carthage at (417) 237-7024.

Free Automotive Waste Tire Collection
04/23/2004 to 04/24/2004  9am-3pm  Joplin Recycling Center, 1310 West A St.
(Corner of A Street and Porter Avenue)
Earth Day Celebration Activity
--Joplin Residents & Landlords
--Empire District Electric Customers
--Automotive Tires only
--No Commercial Tires
--Limit 10 tires per household

Tires will be chipped and used as fuel at the Asbury, MO. Empire District Electric Power Plant

FREE(Limited) Household Hazardous Waste Collection
10/24/2003 to 10/25/2003  9:00 am to 1:00 pm  Joplin Recycling Center, 1310 West A Street (corner of A Street and Porter Avenue)
Open to Joplin Residents & Landlords Only - A "Reuse Table" will be available
ACCEPTING:
--Insecticides, Pesticides, Herbicides, Fertilizers
--Miscellaneous Chemicals
--Mercury
--All Batteries (except dry cell)
--Household Cleaners, Disinfectants
--Pool and Photography Chemicals
--Aerosol Cans
NOT ACCEPTING:
--Motor Oil & Antifreeze (Can be recycled for free (year-round) at various locations such as O'Reilly Auto Parts and Lube-N-Oil)
--Ammunition, Explosives, & Commercial Waste
--Paint, Varnish, Stain and similar products (Free sawdust and containers will be given away so residents can solidify their own items at home. Dry paint can be disposed of through regular residential trash service.)