SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake based recycling non-profit has been growing year after year proving people want to recycle, they just need to know where to go.

Utah Recycling Alliance has been around for about eight years. It has six different programs all around recycling, and one of them is the CHaRM event . CHaRM is an acronym that stands for Collection of Hard to Recycle Material.

CHaRM program director Robi Overson said the program has seen more and more success every year.

“In 2023, we had only collected about 3,500 pounds of material,” Overson said. “And then we increased it in 2024 to 22,000 pounds of material that we collected. And so far for 2025, we have collected over 35,000 pounds of material.”

That is a 55% increase from last year.

The event is held several times a year, an

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