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Earth 911: provides most environmental information for your area. Check out their latest Green News.

Houston Galveston Recycling Guide: information on 80+ drop off centers and tips on how to reduce and reuse everyday materials.

The Story of Stuff: a great 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. See also The Story of Bottled Water, The Story of Electronics , The Story of Cosmetics and more.

Taylor and Alaina are dropping plastic and aluminum cans in the bin at Oak Forest New School Recycling Program and Essay Contest for Humble I.S.D. Students!

Kingwood Drop off Center

The drop off center provided by the City of Houston is located at the Metro Park and Ride . It can be accessed from Lake Houston Parkway (the Rustic Wood Dr access is usually closed). It is open every weekend from Friday noon to Monday morning. The drop-off center accepts: aluminum and steel cans, including empty aerosol cans, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and #7 (not #6!) plastic bottles and containers, clear and colored glass, paper, cardboard and phone books. Please flatten your cardboard.
Have a look also at What NOT to Put in the Bin.

Paper Recycling Bins

Most kinds of paper can be dropped in the Abitibi green and yellow recycling bins that you will find in the parking lot of most schools and churches: newspapers, magazines, shopping catalogues, junk mail (even envelopes with windows), and phone books. (Please, remove all plastic bags and recycle them at grocery stores.). No more cardboard. Please bring flatten cardboard to the weekly Drop off Center.

Electronic Recycling Monthly Electronic Waste Recycling Event in Kingwood
(first Saturday of every month)
Next event, February 4, 2012, 9 AM to 3 PM

The City of Houston Solid Waste Department and CompuCycle will be providing monthly one day E-Recyclable collection events on the first Saturday of the month at the Kingwood Metro Park & Ride lot. This is primarily for City of Houston residents, but CompuCycle says no one will be turned away.

At the 1st collection day on November 5th over 13,000 pounds were collected. Thank you for caring, recycling, and keeping these hazardous substances from the landfill!

Items accepted include TVs, PCs, servers, keyboards, mice, laptops, game consoles, monitors, small kitchen appliances, memory chips, hubs and routers, printers, copiers, scanners, fax machines, projectors, rechargeable batteries, cable boxes, car batteries, telephones, cell phones, PDAs, tape drives, hard drives, cords, cables, cameras and small appliances.

Also, CompuCycle has a mobile hard drive shredder to shredd hard drives on site for residents.
You can also recycle these items at the CompuCycle warehouse. Check their web site for details: www.compucycle.net
Keep Kingwood Green will send a monthly reminder to our mailing list and Facebook page

BOPA event Annual BOPA Collection Event for Batteries, Oil, Latex Paint, and Antifreeze

The City of Houston comes to the Kingwood Park and Ride lot once per year to collect BOPA items. The good news is that many of the items that are collected at BOPA events can be recycled every day locally:

- Leftover paints can be given away on Freecycle
- Rechargeable batteries can be recycled at many hardware, electronic and department stores (Alspaughs, Sears Hardware, Best Buy, Radio Shack...).
- Used Motor Oil can be recycled at O'Reilly Auto Parts, 3219 W Lake Houston Pkwy in Kingwood (next to Walgreens).
- All other Hazardous Waste (fuel, pesticides, antifreeze, chemicals, etc.) can be taken to the North Environmental Service Center 713-837-9137 , located at Hwy 59 and Loop 610. It is open to Houston residents only. See web site for directions and hours of operation: http://www.houstontx.gov/solidwaste/esc-north.html There is no charge.
- Appliances and scrap metal will be picked up for free at your house by Junky Business
- CFL Bulbs are recycled at Home Depot and Lowes
- Styrofoam chips and even blocks can be brought to most UPS store. They reuse them for their packaging.

The 2012 Kingwood event has not yet been scheduled by the City, but if you can’t wait, City residents can always take BOPA items and many other things to the West Park Recycling Center. http://www.houstontx.gov/solidwaste/westpark.html They are open Monday through Saturday from 8 AM to 5 PM. Combine it with another trip downtown.
If you live outside the City of Houston but in Harris County your alternative is to take your items to the Harris County Collection facility. http://www.eng.hctx.net/watershed/hhw_facility.html See this web site for times and location. If you live outside of Harris County contact us and we will try to find your closest drop off site.

Local Recycling Guide More Recycling

Visit our Local Recycling Guide on this website.

Or, download our current information brochure (pdf 222 KB)

Kingwood Farmer Market - Every Thursday from 2 PM to 6 PM

If you love fresh home grown fruits and vegetables, now is the time to visit the Farmers Market in Kingwood Town Center Park.

Come and visit the certified vendors to buy locally grown and produced fruit, vegetables and such delicacies as indian food, jellies and jams, artisan breads, olive oil, goat cheese, lavender, jerky, sugar-free desserts, orchids and many others.

You can now check their web site at: www.towncenterevents.com/farmersmarket