Recycle Revolution gives the business to glass, plastics and other recyclables

Want to join a peaceful revolution and do your part to help keep Dallas green? Recycle Revolution might be just what you're looking for.

The company was started by Eddie Lott and his mother in 2008, but Lott says the idea to open a recycling collection service had been on his mind for a couple of years.

"I was working in bars on Greenville Avenue and in Exposition Park and realized that literally, about 95 percent of what I threw away every day on the job was recyclable, from the aluminum cans and glass bottles and mugs people drank out of, to the paperboard boxes that the juice cans came in, to the soft plastic wrapping that covered them. It just seemed so wrong that we, as an establishment, weren't recycling the items, and it would be so easy to get that practice started."

Recycle Revolution works with businesses, apartments and condominiums. The company also operates a Community Drop-Off Center at its office in East Dallas, where individuals can bring electronics and other hard-to-recycle materials. The company also recently launched a recycling program for apartment tenants.

Recycle Revolution participates in dozens of community events to help raise awareness. "As a service provider, we do everything possible to make sure that our clients' recyclables end up where they should – in the hands of local processors – and not where they shouldn't – in local landfills."

Recycle Revolution accepts everything from traditional recyclables (paper, plastics Nos. 1-7, aluminum and cardboard) to the not-so-traditional (glass, light bulbs and lighting fixtures, electronic waste and batteries), but the company is constantly expanding. Lott says that in the past few months, Recycle Revolution has worked to recycle items such as safety equipment, used clothing and linens, Styrofoam, packaging peanuts and carpet.

Over the course of a day, the company might deliver glass to a processor in Midlothian, electronics to a company in Fort Worth or paper and plastic products to a company in Garland.

Lott plans to continue to expand his partnerships with businesses of all sizes across the area.

The Origins store in NorthPark Center has used the company since December 2008.

"Recycle Revolution is helping my company, Origins, stand by their green initiative even more, and my team is proud to have the ability to recycle in ways ordinary mall facilities don't allow," says Lisa deVore of Origins. "Plus, the RR staff is so kind, we look forward to seeing them each pickup."