What can you recycle on campus?

Georgia Tech provides the campus community with many opportunities to recycle a variety of materials. The following is a list of the materials that are currently recycled:

Mixed Paper - Includes catalogs, white office paper, magazines, junk mail, newspapers, computer paper, colored office paper (staples and paper clips do not have to be removed).

Aluminum Cans

Plastic Bottles - 1 or 2 (milk cartons, soda bottles, etc.); look on the bottom of the containers for the number 1 or 2 in a triangle.

Newspaper

Cardboard: Flattened, corrugated (no wax-sealed, or food-contaminated material).

No pizza boxes!

Glass: Clear, brown, and green - rinse the container and remove the lid.

Magazines

Campus Directories:Collected in Academic and Support Buildings each January and February.

Batteries: are recycled through EHS for details click here

Special Items: If you have any of these Items contact the Office of Recycling.

Brass
Copper
Mixed Metals
Pallets
Scrap Wire
Tires
Transparencies
Tyvek Envelopes
Used Oil

Summary of recycleable materials:

	General Campus Satellites	Academic & Support Buildings	Residence Halls	Main Drop-off Sites
Mixed Office Paper		X	X	X
Aluminum Cans	X	X	X	X
Plastic Bottles (1&2)	X		X	X
Newspaper	X		X	X
Corrugated Cardboard				X
Glass (clear, green, brown)				X
Magazines				X
Campus Directories*		X
Batteries				Click for details

*Campus directory collection program is seasonal and runs during January and February only.
For a complete report of all materials recycled at Georgia Tech please go to Recycling Statistics.

For more information, visit the Recycling website.