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Recycling
Recycling is probably the easiest thing you can do to go green! It even cuts up to 1,000 pounds of annual carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. Even though you do recycle, you can be even “greener” by choosing products with the least amount of packaging possible and by choosing easily recyclable packaging, like paper or glass; very few municipal recycling programs accept plastics other than those labeled #1 and #2.
Click here for an overview on recycling from the EPA.
Your recyclables don't need to be spotless, just not moldy or full of food.
Save water - don't rinse until clean.
Tips on recycling:
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Material
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Where to recycle
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How to prepare it for recycling
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Plastic Bottles:
#1 Plastic (PETE)
Acceptable examples:
#2 Plastic (HDPE Clear) & #2 Plastic (HDPE Colored)
Acceptable examples:
Colored - Acceptable examples:
# is found on the bottom of the plastic bottle. What do those numbers mean? Click here for information.
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Screven County Recycling Centers
Days/Hours: 24 hour drop-off site Phone: (912) 863-7480
Convenience Center #1
943 Rocky Ford Road,
Location:
7 AM - 4 PM, Screven County Landfill
4 PM - 7 AM, Outside landfill and transfer station.
Convenience Center #2
Jenk Hill and Ogeechee Road,
Sylvania, GA 30467
Convenience Center #3
Highway 21,
Location: Next to the White Stag building.
Convenience Center #4
Ogeechee Road and Highway 301,
Location: In the BiLo Shopping Center.
Convenience Center #5
Highway 301 and Bascom Road,
Location: Next to Sylvania Ford.
Convenience Center #7
Sylvania, GA 30467
Location: Off of Highway 21.
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Rinse plastic bottles.
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Remove and throw away plastic caps.
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Crush flat to save space in bin.
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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.
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Aluminum Cans
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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.
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Cardboard:
Acceptable examples include:
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shipping boxes
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moving boxes
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appliance boxes
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Brown paper grocery bags
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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.
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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.
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Paper:
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Car Batteries
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Used Tires
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Old mobile homes
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$250.00 plus you supply transportation.
Call 863-7001
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Scrap Metal:
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Refrigerators
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Bicycles
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Small appliances
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Fence material
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Swing sets
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Chemical jugs
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Must be triple rinsed and hole punched.
For more information,
click here.
Chemical jugs are chipped up and recycled into plastic pallets and fencing.
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Old Clothing
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Acts III
Main Street, Sylvania
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Used Motor Oil
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Advance Auto Parts
1123 West Ogeechee Avenue
Sylvania, GA 30467
912-564-2131
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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)
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Screven County Learning Center
Cherry Street, Sylvania
564-7222
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Newspaper only. Must be dry. Remove from plastic bags. Comics section, Parade section and inserts are OK.
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The rule is if it comes with your newspaper, recycle it with your newspaper.
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Magazines
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Paper back books
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Telephone books
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Catalogs
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Rechargeable Batteries
Rechargeable batteries from portable equipment such as cell/cordless phones, lap tops, power drills, etc.
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Keep Screven Beautiful
412 Pine Street
Sylvania, Georgia
564-9171
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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.
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Wireless Telephones
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“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.
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Ink Jet Cartridges
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Office Max will donate $2 for every printer cartridge mailed to them in the special KAB envelope. Stop by the office to pick up an envelope.
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Packing Peanuts
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Keep Screven Beautiful will accept and store packing peanuts. We have a list of businesses that we supply these peanuts to.
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Electronics Recycling
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Staples
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Staples will now accept all brands of computers, monitors, laptops, printers, faxes, and all-in-one devices at its U.S. stores for a fee of $10 per large item. Televisions, which Staples does not sell, are not accepted.
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Materials Not Collected:
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Paper contaminated by food (pizza boxes, paper plates, napkins, etc.)
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Plastic liners from food packaging
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Wax milk cartons, wax paper, juice boxes, frozen food boxes, and other paper coated with wax
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Light bulbs, mirrors, broken glass, and Styrofoam
The EPA estimates that while 75 percent of what Americans trash every week could be recycled, only 25 percent is.
Georgia is one of the top recycling states in the nation.
Last updated: June 27, 2008
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