Recycling
Paper | Cell Phones | Christmas Trees
You don't have to buy a hybrid car or install solar panels on your roof to become a better steward of the environment. You can start by recycling paper, cell phones – even your Christmas tree.
Paper You may dispose of newspapers, magazines, catalogs and office paper in several recycling bins, available at the following locations during regular hours:
Cascade Valley Metro Park / Oxbow
Firestone Metro Park / Tuscarawas Meadows
Firestone Metro Park / Warner Road
Goodyear Heights Metro Park / Main Entrance
Gorge Metro Park / Main Entrance
Sand Run Metro Park / Lone Spruce
Sand Run Metro Park / Old Portage
Sand Run Metro Park / Wadsworth
Towpath Trail / Memorial Parkway
Cell Phones Recycling your old cell phone reduces waste and can prevent harmful chemicals from reaching groundwater or polluting the air. Bins for cell phones are available at the following locations during regular hours:
F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm 10 a.m to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday
Sand Run Metro Park / Administrative Offices 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
Christmas Trees We "recycle" trees, cleaned of all decorations and tinsel, by chipping them into mulch. You may drop off your live tree at the following locations, December 26 through January 31:
Firestone Metro Park / Little Turtle
Furnace Run Metro Park / Brushwood
Sand Run Metro Park / Treaty Line
Silver Creek Metro Park / Big Oak
Bird Feeders Cooper's hawks will eat small birds, often hunting for them at your backyard feeder. (Hey, it is called a bird feeder.)
Hold Your Nose The striped skunk's scientific name, mephitis mephitis, means "noxious gas, noxious gas."