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] on Monday through Friday from 7:30am until 4:00pm.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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 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.)

Metal food and drink cans - empty and rinsed.

Library books, school books, paper back books and telephone books. Special bins for books are located at each compactor site and the Recycling Center.

(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.)

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

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

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.

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
• Microwave Ovens
• Tape players
• Cash registers
• Office shredders
• Copy machines
• Printers
• Recording media (VCR tapes, music cassettes, CD's & DVD's)

NOTICE: Hard disks/drives deposited for recycling should be cleared of any personal data/information. Hall County assumes no liability for accidental or deliberate misuse of any personal data/information accessed by others during or after the recycling process.

Protect yourself by wiping or destroying your hard drives before you recycle! Several software products are available for permanently deleting all data, or a simple nail driven through the outer casing and disk is effective.

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  Email	P.O. Box 1435 Gainesville, GA 30503 1008 Chestnut St. Gainesville, GA 30501