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Recycling Opportunities

Whether young or old, recycling is a habit that all Hall Countians should practice. Recycling helps our community by cleaning our environment and reducing the amount of waste that goes into our landfills. We're offering the following recycling tips to help you keep Hall beautiful!



Our recycling center is located at 1008 Chestnut St. SE, Gainesville, GA 30501-6909. We accept all listed materials at this location. [pop-up map]

Glass Products
Newspaper
Aluminum Cans
Plastics
Corrugated Cardboard
Rechargeable Batteries
Tin Cans
Bound Books
Office Papers
Mixed Paper
Cooking Grease (Oil)
Used Motor Oil
Electronics
Magazines




Glass

Food and beverage containers only - separated by color and rinsed. Caps & lids must be removed and discarded. Labels are okay.

Acceptable examples:
  • Clear (pickle jars, mayonnaise jars, juice jars, ketchup bottles)
  • Green (wine bottles beer bottles)
  • Brown (beer & juice bottles, e.g., prune juice)
  • Blue (sparkling fruit flavored water bottles - place in bin with green glass)
No plate glass, light bulbs, ceramics, or heat treated glass (ex. PYREX), etc.



Newspaper

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.




Aluminum Cans

Aluminum and bi-metal beverage cans, clean aluminum foil, aluminum pie plates and trays. Acceptable examples: beer and soda cans, TV dinner trays.




Plastics

PETE #1 - Discard caps, rinse container. Please flatten containers by stepping on them.
Acceptable examples: green and clear 1 & 2 liter soda bottles (must have a screw on top or it's not acceptable).

Hint = PETE plastic is always clear (see-thru) whether colored or not and will have the above symbol on the bottom:

HDPE #2 - Discard caps, rinse container.

HDPE comes in two forms, which must be separated - Natural and Colored. Please flatten containers by stepping on them.

Natural (cloudy white) - Acceptable examples: milk & 1/2 gal. orange juice jugs.

Colored - Acceptable examples: bleach and laundry detergent bottles. (No motor oil containers, yogurt or margarine type containers.)
Hint = HDPE plastic is either cloudy or opaque (non see-thru).



Corrugated Cardboard

Acceptable examples include shipping boxes, moving boxes, and appliance boxes. Boxes must be broken down or flattened. Corrugated cardboard has three layers - a smooth inner and outer layer, plus a wavy middle layer. Brown paper grocery bags are also acceptable. No waxed cardboard. No single layer boxes such as shoe, cereal, cracker boxes, etc.



Rechargeable Batteries

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

Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion), and Small Sealed Lead (Pb). Must be two (2) pounds or less. (Only collected at Recycling Center.)



Tin Cans

Metal food and drink cans - empty and rinsed.
Magazines Periodicals and catalogs printed on glossy paper, having stapled or glued bindings.



Bound Books

Library books, school books, paper back books and telephone books. These should be placed in bin with magazines.



Office Papers

(Office Mix) - White office paper, colored office paper, computer paper (green and blue bar), fax paper, and non windowed envelopes. Only collected at Recycling Center.



Mixed Paper

Boxboard (cereal boxes, crackers boxes and shoe boxes), junk mail. No laminated paper, corrugated cardboard, or carbon paper. Only collected at Recycling Center.



Cooking Grease (Oil)

Used grease (oil) from deep-frying. Residents only please... no businesses. (Only collected at Recycling Center.)



Used Motor Oil

Motor oil, hydraulic oil, and transmission oil only from personal vehicles and lawn and garden equipment. Limit of 5 gallons per person per visit. Note: Oil will not be accepted in bleach containers. Used oil containers are not recyclable. Please reuse your oil container for the next time you change your oil.



Electronic Components

We now accept the following list of electronic components. Please note that we do not accept televisions or cell phones at this time. (Electronic components collected only at Recycling Center.)

Used cell phones can be recycled through Keep Hall Beautiful at 770-531-1102.

  • All electronics containing circuit cards/boards
  • Computers (Laptops, Servers, PCs, workstations, mainframes, terminals)
  • Computer network equipment (such as network cards, hubs routers, etc.)
  • Computer monitors (CRT and flat panel)
  • Network/telecom racks/cabinets
  • Keyboards
  • Mice
  • Docking Stations
  • External hard drives
  • Tape drives
  • External modems
  • Electric motors
  • Transformers
  • Sound equipment (such as receivers, amplifiers, CD/DVD players, etc.)
  • Banking equipment (such as cash counters, magnetic card readers, check printers, etc.)
  • Test equipment (oscilloscope, voltmeter, amp meter, power meter, voltage generators etc.)
  • Telecommunication equipment (wired telephones, network switches, antennas etc.)
  • Copper wires and cables
  • AC adapters, power supplies, surge protectors, switch boxes, calculators printer monitor – UPS battery)
  • Fax machines
  • Typewriters
  • Scanners
  • Overhead projectors
  • Microfiche
  • VCR
  • Tape players
  • Cash registers
  • Office shredders
  • Copy machines



Magazines

Periodicals and catalogs printed on glossy paper, having stapled or glued bindings.



Public Works - Resource Recovery
Rick Foote
Natural Resources Coordinator

 770.531.7125
 770.531.3966
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P.O. Box 1435
Gainesville, GA
30503

1008 Chestnut St.
Gainesville, GA 30501



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