Recycling Program

Terracycle Recycling Program

EVERY POUND OF PET FOOD PLASTIC PACKAGING WE SHIP TO TERRACYCLE, $1 IS DONATED TO THE NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY, AN ORGANIZATION CLOSE TO OUR HEARTS.

  1. SAVE your plastic pet food packaging (everything! nothing is too small/big, or the wrong plastic)
  2. Call/Text/Email and leave out on the counter, porch, etc. for us to pick up.
  3. ITS SO EASY, anyone can do it. No membership or fees, IT’S FREE.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Do you purchase pet food/treats in plastic bags? If no, stop reading now and HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.
  2. Are you putting these plastic bags in your blue topped bins? If yes, STOP doing this immediately. None of the Waste Management facilities anywhere in the United States recycle any type of plastic bags (EVEN the one’s with a #7 on the back). Their excuse, “they clog up the belts”.
  3. Instead, save these bags and we (the K9 Nannies in Reno/Sparks) will pick them up FREE, anytime, anywhere in Washoe County, any day, whenever is convenient for you. HOW COOL IS THAT!?!
  4. OR you can drop off at Baring Boulevard Veterinary Hospital located at 700 Baring Boulevard in Sparks.
  5. If you are not in Washoe County, you can drop them off at our Enrichment Center in Stateline, at 290 Kingsbury Grade, Stateline, NV 89449.
  6. We ship these off to a facility in New Jersey for 100% recycling, THATS RIGHT! TerraCycle begins the recycling process by first shredding these down, then melting, then molding them back into the tiny pellets they started out as. Then GUESS WHAT? These pellets are sold back to the plastic bag manufacturing companies to become bags once more.
  7. BONUS – For every pound of pet food plastic packaging we ship to TerraCycle, $1 is donated to the Nevada Humane Society, an organization close to our hearts.