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KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI -- Kirksville's Sheltered Workshop will soon provide some relief to recyclers.

The workshop, which has been around since 1968, works with various agencies to provide job opportunities for the handicapped.

"We have a car-detailing shop here in the building. We do recycling with cardboard, paper, office paper, confidential document-shredding, and that type of thing," said Dennis Dew, Co-manager of Sheltered Workshop. "We work with quite a few businesses here in town."

They also provide lawn-care and snow-removal.

In April of this year, they began their own recycling program, with the help of a business-plan, put together by Truman State University students. Part of the program will include a large, trailer-bin at Kirksville's Walmart.

"People that are coming to Walmart can bring in recyclable newspapers, magazines, books, cardboard, paper. Even if it's already shredded, they can bring that in, just in bags or whatever," said Dew. "We'll have containers inside or just throw it in loose, but when it fills up, we'll clean it out and take it back."

Dropping off the materials is free of charge, and Dew said they soon hope to host a 'Free Shredding Day,' in which residents and businesses can shred their documents free-of-charge.