Recycling centers in Chalmette

Glass Half Full began in 2020 when Tulane seniors hand-crushed friends' bottles in a backyard, and it now turns recycled glass into sand and cullet from its base in Chalmette. The sand goes to eroding Louisiana coastline projects and the cullet to new glass products. The company diverts tens of thousands of pounds of glass from landfills every week. Households in Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes, Baton Rouge, the Northshore, Birmingham, Mobile, Bay St. Louis, and Ocean Springs get monthly crate pickup, and businesses and events get glass collection as well. More than 20 free drop-off sites, run with Glassroots, take glass with caps and corks removed and food containers rinsed. Labels stay on, and glass needs no color sorting.

Raisinman Towing & Salvage has worked Chalmette and the St. Bernard and Orleans parishes since 1989. Light-duty trucks move passenger cars and medium-duty trucks move bigger vehicles, down to small structures like sheds, with roadside help for dead batteries, flat tires, lockouts, and empty fuel tanks. The salvage side buys damaged and disabled cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs from the yard at 5441 Paris Road.

WB Scrap Metal is listed as a recycling service at 5000 Paris Road in Chalmette. The listing identifies Paris Road and E Pleasure Street as nearby cross streets.