Recycle (to close the loop)

#1 Plastic (PETE)

#2 Plastic (HDPE Clear) &

#2 Plastic (HDPE Colored)

Glass

Aluminum

Cardboard

Paper

Newspapers

Magazines

Rechargeable Batteries

Wireless Telephones

Ink Jet Cartridges

Electronics Recycling

Packing Peanuts

Scrap Metal

Old Clothing

Automobile Batteries

Used Motor Oil

Scrap Tires

Chemical jugs

Old mobile homes

Materials Not Collected

Material

Where to recycle

How to prepare it for recycling

Plastic Bottles:
#1 Plastic (PETE)

Acceptable examples:

• green and clear 1 & 2 liter soda bottles

#2 Plastic (HDPE Clear) & #2 Plastic (HDPE Colored)

Acceptable examples:

• milk & 1/2 gal. orange juice jugs

• bleach and laundry detergent bottles.

# is found on the bottom of the plastic bottle. What do those numbers mean? Click here for information.

Screven County Recycling Centers

Days/Hours: 24 hour drop-off site Phone: (912) 863-7480

Drop off these items at one of the Neighborhood Recycling Centers around the county:

Rocky Ford Neighborhood Recycle Center #1

943 Rocky Ford Road,

Location:

7 AM - 4 PM, Screven County Landfill

4 PM - 7 AM, Outside landfill and transfer station.

Neighborhood Recycle Center #2

Jenk Hill and Ogeechee Road,

Sylvania, GA 30467

Neighborhood Recycle Center #3

Highway 21,

Location: Next to the White Stag building.

Neighborhood Recycle Center #4

Ogeechee Road and Highway 301,

Location: In the BiLo Shopping Center.

Neighborhood Recycle Center #7

Sylvania, GA 30467

Location: Off of Highway 21.

• Rinse plastic bottles.

• Remove plastic caps.

• Crush flat to save space in bin.

• Do not dump plastic bags in the hopper with the recyclable plastic. Plastic bags are actually a contaminant in recycled No. 1 & 2 plastics.

You don't need to remove labels from cans and bottles, but you do need to remove plastic caps.

 The Screven County Library needs your help! They need plastic bottle caps of all colors to use in crafts.

Do not include plastic tubs such as margarine, yogurt and ice cream containers, or motor oil bottles.

According to the EPA, more than 22.4 million tons of plastics were produced in 1998, but less than 6 percent were recycled.

Glass

• Sort glass by color (clear, green, and amber).

• It is best to sort glass by color (clear, green, and amber), as mixed glass has little or no value to container manufacturers.

Aluminum

• Aluminum beverage cans

• Clean aluminum foil

• Aluminum pie plates

• Frozen food trays

• Food cans

• Lawn chair tubing

• Storm door and window frames

• Residential siding

• Auto parts

• Rinse aluminum cans.

• Crush cans to save space in bin.

• Acceptable examples: beer and soda cans, TV dinner trays.

You don't need to remove labels from cans and bottles, but you do need to remove plastic caps (and throw them away).

Recycling 40 cans saves the equivalent
of one gallon in gasoline.

Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy needed to produce new aluminum from raw materials. Energy saved from recycling one ton of aluminum is equal to the amount of electricity the average home uses over 10 years. The value of aluminum also typically covers the cost for its collection and reprocessing.

Keep Screven Beautiful has teamed up with the Sylvania Fire Department, the Screven County 4-H, and the Sylvania Junior Woman's Club to collect aluminum cans. The pull tabs will be taken to the Screven County 4-H office for the Ronald McDonald House and the cans will be taken to the Sylvania Fire Department for the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.

Cardboard:

Acceptable examples include:

• shipping boxes

• moving boxes

• appliance boxes

• Brown paper grocery bags

• cereal boxes

No waxed cardboard

 9 cubic yards of landfill space is saved by recycling one ton of cardboard! Click here to learn more recycling facts.

The county picks up cardboard from local businesses and takes it to the transfer station where it bundles the cardboard into 800 pound bales. A company in Augusta purchases the bales. Click here for a photo.

Paper:
 

• Computer Paper

• Mixed Paper

• White Office Paper

• Shredded Paper

• Cereal boxes

• Shoe boxes

• Junk mail

• Photocopies

• Envelopes (including ones with glassine windows).

• Store your shredded paper in plastic trash bags.

• Place the bags of paper into one of the cardboard containers around the county. Call the Keep Screven Beautiful office (564-9171) for the closest one.

Scrap Tires

Leave old tires with the retailer who sells and/or installs the new one on your vehicle. They are required to accept them by law.

• There is a charge for tires.

• Tires are banned from landfills.

According to the Rubber Manufacturers Association , in 2003, 18 million scrap tires were converted into ground rubber and recycled into products, 56 million were used as an alternative to rock in civil engineering projects, and 130 million for fuel in cement kilns and pulp and paper mills. The rest were used in rubberized asphalt, exported, or stamped into new products.

Old mobile homes

$250.00 plus you supply transportation. $75 demolition permit

Call 863-7001 for details.

Scrap Metal:

• Refrigerators

• Bicycles

• Small appliances

• Fence material

• Swing sets

• Steel cans

• Appliances
   

Construction - It is estimated that 60% of all steel used to reinforce buildings and 96% of structural beams and plates are recycled.

Chemical jugs

For more information, click here.

Must be triple rinsed and hole punched.

For more information, click here.

Chemical jugs are chipped up and recycled into plastic pallets and fencing.

Old Clothing

• Clean clothing only.

• Household items.

• Can be tax deductible!

Acts III

Main Street, Sylvania

Battery Recycling

Batteries are banned from landfills.

Advance Auto Parts

1123 West Ogeechee Avenue

Sylvania, GA 30467

912-564-2131

See www.advanceautoparts.com/english
/services/recycling.asp for more information.

• Leave old batteries with the retailer who sells and/or installs the new one in your vehicle. They are required to accept them by law.

Used Motor Oil

• Place used motor oil in empty milk or oil bottles with screw-on cap.

• Please do not put used motor oil in your garbage or pour it in your yard.

Newspapers

According to the Georgia Southern Environmental Network, recycling a three-foot stack of newspaper saves one tree. Every ton of paper that gets recycled saves enough energy to heat the average home for six months (4100 kwh)

Screven County Learning Center

Cherry Street, Sylvania

564-7222

Drop these items off at the Learning Center or at one of the drop-off locations around the county.

• Newspaper only. Must be dry. Remove from plastic bags. Comics section, Parade section and inserts are OK.

• The rule is if it comes with your newspaper, recycle it with your newspaper.

Magazines

• Paper back books

• Telephone books

• Catalogs

Rechargeable Batteries

Rechargeable batteries from portable equipment such as cell/cordless phones, lap tops, power drills, etc.

Keep Screven Beautiful

Screven County Court House

Sylvania, Georgia

564-9171

Bring these items to the KSB office.

Do not dispose in regular garbage. These batteries contain toxic metals including cadmium and lead.

We work with Call2Recycle", the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC). RBRC sends us free pre-addressed, freight pre-paid, RBRC collection boxes. We are listed as an active collection site on the RBRC web sites, www.rbrc.org and call2recycle.org.

Wireless Telephones

Wipe Out Wireless Waste is a campaign to recycle used wireless phones and generate proceeds for local community improvement and revitalization projects through Keep America Beautiful. Click here to learn more about this.

Ink Jet Cartridges

Office Max will donate $2 for every printer cartridge mailed to them in the special KAB Keep America Beautiful envelope. Stop by the office to pick up an envelope.

Packing Peanuts

Keep Screven Beautiful will accept and store packing peanuts. We have a list of businesses that we supply these peanuts to.

Electronics Recycling

• Computers (CPUs and laptops, mainframes, peripherals)

• Monitors (CRTs and flat screens)

• Telephones, Cell phones and Telephone systems

• Fax Machines and Central Office Equipment

• Printers and Copiers

• Televisions

• Banking and Financial Equipment

• Medical Equipment

• Rechargeable batteries

• Electronic Circuit boards and components

• Stereo Equipment, Games, PDAs.  

America Recycles Day!
KSB will be celebrating America Recycles Day on Saturday, November 14th from 9 until 2 this year. Click here to download a flyer.

The Electronics Recycling Event will be on Pine Street across from the Syl-View Nursing Home. Creative Recycling will pick up and process the electronics.

Items accepted are: Computers (CPUs and laptops, mainframes, peripherals), Monitors (CRTs and flat screens), Telephones, Cell phones and Telephone systems, Fax Machines and Central Office Equipment, Printers and Copiers, Televisions, Banking and Financial Equipment, Medical Equipment, Rechargeable batteries, Electronic Circuit boards and components, Stereo Equipment, Games, PDAs.
For more information on Creative Recycling, visit http://www.crserecycling.com/.