Recycling centers in Arvada

Arvada Recycling has run as a locally owned metal yard at 9630 Ralston Road since 1990. It buys non-ferrous metal in every grade, including aluminum, copper, brass, lead, and alloys, plus car batteries and catalytic converters. Appliances and steel come through the gate too, but the yard accepts them without paying for them. The yard handles metal only. TVs, glass, plastic, cardboard, paper, refrigerators, microwave ovens, propane tanks, and single-stream household recycling are turned away. Payouts are quoted by phone because prices change daily, and large loads must arrive before 4 pm on weekdays or noon on Saturday. Customers come from across the Denver metro area, from Boulder and Broomfield to Parker and Commerce City.

Data Center Recyclers decommissions and recycles large backup power equipment and data center hardware for contractors, businesses, data centers, and electronics manufacturers across Colorado, from an Arvada office. Ryan Watts, a veteran of data center power system removal and logistics, handles the projects personally. The company uninstalls, seals, palletizes, and transports UPS systems, generators, automatic transfer switches, lead-acid batteries, power distribution units, switchgear, servers, racks, and cables. Material goes to a smelter or recycler, and the customer receives a Certificate of Recycling that indemnifies it against hazardous-material liability. The company's goal is removal at low or no cost, with resale value offsetting the job where equipment has it. Oracle, AT&T, and Sturgeon Electric are repeat customers.

SustainAbility Recycling runs the Arvada H2R center, a drop-off for hard-to-recycle materials, electronics, reuse items, and compost. The Arvada site accepts the company's full list of 30-plus hard-to-recycle materials, anything with a cord or a battery, and food scraps, non-recyclable paper products, and small plants and flowers for composting. Compost goes in only at Arvada and not at the Broomfield site. The center opens to the public Monday through Saturday. It also handles commercial e-waste pickups and compost pickups, and its team includes people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A second hard-to-recycle center in Westminster takes a shorter list.