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They come in with alu- minum cans, newspaper, cardboard and glass bottles and go out with empty bins and sometimes moving boxes. Inside the center, there are volunteers wait - ing to help. Since it opened in 1973, the center has been run by volunteers including its own board of directors. Longtime board member Wally Sheldon said that it was the recycling cen - ter that originally helped furnish Riordan Hall in- cluding the stage curtain and most of the kitchen equipment. In the early days volun- teers used their own per- sonal vehicles, he said, and the center owned two bal- ers. They baled plastic in a baler that measured 18 by 18. There was no running water at the original site, so volunteers had to bring their own water for coffee and use a portable toilet. The Recycle Center moved to its current loca - tion in 2001 and added new balers, he said. Over the years, the center developed a grant pro- gram. In the early 2000's the grants were managed by the AARP chapter, but the chapter is no longer active, so the Recycling Center board of directors took the program back. Now, the amount of each grant is related to the number of hours donated by volunteers. Volunteers can choose which orga - nization will get credit for their hours and the organi- zations range from, Oasis, a residential program for women in recovery to the Bella Vista Fly Tyers who often put the funds into fish habitat or fish cleaning stations. For many area business - es, recycling is a win/win situation, Board Chair Paul Poulides said. Cardboard is a valuable product for the center, although the price varies. But for the busi - nesses that need to dispose of cardboard, it's an ex- pense. When the recycling volunteers pick up loads of cardboard, the business saves money on their trash bills and landfills don't fill up as quickly. Cardboard prices have been high in recent years as more and more people shop online and their products come in card - board boxes. While there is more cardboard to get rid of, there's also more need- ed by the shippers so the price of recycled cardboard goes up. The center also makes some money selling mov- ing boxes that have been gently used. People donate the boxes, then volunteers collect them and sell them for a much better price than the moving compa - nies. In fact, Poulides said, some moving companies actually buy the boxes at the center and resell them to clients at a profit. The center also accepts glass, which some other volunteer recycling pro - grams won't accept. Glass is difficult to handle be- cause it's easy to break and some volunteers will get hurt. In Bella Vista, glass is accepted and carefully sorted according to color. Volunteers grind glass and put it in huge Gaylord crates. Workers can fill a box every other day, with a truck load accumulated once a month. But even by the truck load, there's little money in glass. It does keep it out of the landfill though, Poulides pointed out. Business at the center picked up when Repub - lic Services — the city's trash collection compa- ny — stopped collecting blue bags of recyclables according to Coordinator Lou Stirek. But the new customers brought a new set of problems, Stirek said. Not everyone is hap- py about dropping off the recycling themselves. That was part of the reason that the center stopped putting out trash barrels. Their own trash bill was getting too high. According to their web - site, www.bellavistarecy- cling.org, so far this year, the center has recycled 2,278 tons of material and raised $92,000 for the com- munity. Lynn Atkins/The Weekly Vista A volunteer loads cardboard into the baler at the Bella Vista Recycling Center. Lynn Atkins/The Weekly Vista Residents sort their recycling into bins at the Bella Vista Recycling Center.