Recycling

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

Colored - Acceptable examples:

• 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

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.

• Rinse plastic bottles.

• Remove and throw away 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.

Aluminum Cans

• Aluminum beverage cans

• Clean aluminum foil

• Aluminum pie plates & trays

• 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.

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.

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.

Car Batteries

• 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.

• Batteries are banned from landfills.

Used Tires

• There is a charge for 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. Tires are banned from landfills.

Old mobile homes

$250.00 plus you supply transportation.

Call 863-7001

Scrap Metal:

• Refrigerators

• Bicycles

• Small appliances

• Fence material

• Swing sets
   

Chemical jugs

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

Acts III

Main Street, Sylvania

• Clean and dry clothing only.

• Usable household items.

• Can be tax deductible!

Used Motor Oil

Advance Auto Parts

1123 West Ogeechee Avenue

Sylvania, GA 30467

912-564-2131

• 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

• 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

412 Pine Street

Sylvania, Georgia

564-9171

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

Staples

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.