Our Partners

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Habitat for Humanity Resale Store in Lapeer provides us a safe space for our collection work as well as space for our volunteers and supplies. 

Rick Rhein Disposal works alongside our volunteers every collection day. In addition to providing staff, they provide the truck and the transport of general recycling materials to the SOCRRA recycling center.

SOCRRA is a major part of our operations as they are the recycling center that accepts all the general recycling gathered each collection day from Rick Rhein disposal. 

Dart Containers accepts recyclable foam collected by us each Saturday. Their delivery service picks up the numerous large bags once a month. The foam is reprocessed for use in other plastic  products such as picture frames and crown molding. 

Meijer in Lapeer is a major partner in our plastic film recycling efforts. Once a month, staff at the Lapeer Meijer accept, on average, 50 large bags of plastic film. Meijer then transports those bags of film to their distribution center that combines all collections from other stores and prepares the recycling for NexTrex pickup.

Our plastic film collections ultimately end up at NexTrex. Using our collected plastic film, they manufacture benches, decking, and other building materials. 

Lapeer County Drop Off Recycling is part of the NexTrex Recycling Challenge and receives a bench made from recycled plastic film once a year after reaching 1,000 pounds collected and reported.