Recycling centers in Joplin

Auto Parts Company's Joplin yard sits on State Highway 43 in the southwest corner of Missouri and joined the company as part of its expansion. Like the other locations it stocks late model recycled parts for foreign and domestic cars, light trucks, and vans.

Bulky items, brush, and tree limbs are the loads taken at the GFL Joplin Transfer Station on West 7th Street. The City of Joplin subsidizes the disposal rate for its own residents, who pay the discounted price on up to 2,000 pounds when they show a copy of their sewer bill and a driver's license as proof of residency. The station keeps weekday hours and a Saturday morning shift. Joplin's curbside contractor, Republic Services, runs its own scheduled bulk and yard waste pickups, and the city operates separate free sites for limbs, leaves, and household recyclables.

John Meyer Truck & Foreign Salvage sells used parts for trucks and imported vehicles from its yard at West 7th Street and Black Cat Road in Joplin. The business runs weekdays only and closes on Saturday and Sunday. Customers look up parts through an online inventory searchable by year, make and model, with a separate Spanish language version. A multiple part search built for repair shops lets a buyer check a body parts list or any single part, and entering a VIN narrows the vehicle option questions. Parts carry a 30-day warranty, except electronics.

The city-run center at 1310 West A Street takes paper, plastics 1 and 2, glass, metals, electronics, batteries and used motor oil from residents of Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Barton and Vernon Counties. Drop-off of most items is free, with a $10 fee for TVs and computer monitors.