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Recycle at Cole Hardware!

Bring to any of our four stores:

Cell Phones:
Personal cell phones – batteries and chargers not required. PLEASE, no cordless home phones, car phones, walkie-talkies, pagers or 2-way radios.

Batteries:
Rechargeable (NiCad, NiMH) and household (alkaline and carbon).

Latex Paint:
  • Recycle dry, clean, empty metal paint cans through your regular trash pickup. The latex paint containers you bring us should have paint in them!
  • The ORIGINAL label on each can must CLEARLY state “latex,” “acrylic,” or “water-based” paint. No handwritten labels will be accepted.
  • Be sure that lids are SEALED ON TIGHT and that containers are rustfree and don’t leak.
  • You must not be a commercial paint user.
  • Please limit your dropoffs to no more than 10 gallon-size containers (or 40 quartsize containers or a combination of both) at a time. Containers are counted by size, not by the volume of paint they contain.
  • Take paint to the customer service desk.
  • PLEASE, no brushes or rags!
Spent Flourescent Bulbs:
CFLs, tubes up to 8 feet, U- and D-shaped tubes. Drop-off limit is ten bulbs.

Scrap Metal:
Copper and brass.

Expired Printer Cartridges:
Must be in plastic bags to avoid leakage.


“Recycle” usable items by donating them to a school or nonprofit group!
Visit http://Community.ColeHardware.com


Bay Area Recycling Resources:
Visit www.ColeHardware.com/recycle.htm.


- Hardware Hotline  August, 2008
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