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The National Kidney Foundation will accept cars for recycling. Call 1-800-488-CARS (2277). They provide free towing for all donated vehicles and most people who donate their vehicle will qualify for an IRS tax deduction.
CARDBOARD from home
Acceptable: Unacceptable: Flattened Cardboard Packing material Food waste Trash Wax Cardboard Charleston County Recycling Center, Bees Ferry Rd, and convenience centers. Please flatten all cardboard before you put it in a dumpster.
Most cardboard boxes already contain some recycled fiber. Making paper pulp used in cardboard creates sulfur dioxide, a gas that causes acid rain. Recycling cuts that pollution in half.*
Please recycle newspaper, junk mail, magazines, office paper, and brown paper bags by inserting into a brown paper bag and then placing that bag in your curbside container or taking it to a convenience center. YOU CAN NOT RECYCLE PAPER THIS WAY ON CAMPUS! Do not leave plastic or paper bags in the recycling bins.
Recycled newspaper can be made into many things including more newspaper, cardboard, construction paper, insulation, egg cartons, and animal bedding.*
Phone books are delivered one time a year in August and September. You can put them in your curbside container or the convenience center drop off bins at that time. Look for information concerning this special recycling program.
If all our phone books were kept out of landfills, we could save some 2 million cubic yards of landfill space.*
Charleston County Recycling now accepts cooking oil. Bring your used cooking oil to Bee's Ferry Road Convenience Center. They have a new collection tank available for residents only.
SCRAP METAL and APPLIANCES
Scrap metal and appliances can be recycled if they are properly prepared. For example a refrigerator can be recycled if the door is removed and a propane tank can be recycled if the valves are removed and the tank is empty. Take these items to the Bee's Ferry Road Convenience Center.
Enough scrap copper was recycled in the U.S. in 1989 to supply the wiring and plumbing for every building constructed here that year.*
Charleston County's Battery Recycling Program has expanded to include Nickel cadmium (Ni-Cad), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion), and Small Sealed Lead Acid (Pb) rechargeable batteries. Drop them off at the Recycling Center on 13 Romney St or at any Convenience Center. Please do not put batteries in curbside or drop site bins. You can also return batteries to Best Buy, Circuit City, Home Depot, Wal Mart, Sears, Target, Cellular One, Cingular, Radio Shack, or GTE Wireless store.
This type of battery has been banned from disposal at landfills or incinerators since May 27, 1992. Call 792-4119 for collection. We have a local recycling company that will recycle them.
The average car battery contains 20 pounds of lead and two pounds of sulfuric acid. Companies called "battery breakers" crack each battery open and drain out the sulfuric acid(which is either reprocessed or sent to a hazardous waste facility). Then the batteries go to a scrap yard. The lead is removed and shipped to a mill, where it's melted down into ingot's. It's sold to manufacturers...and might end up in your new battery. The polypropylene case is also recycled.*
Please take your fluorescent bulbs to the Bee's Ferry Road Convenience Center.
Plastic Containers Glass Containers Steel Containers Please recycle plastic containers with a
#1 (PET) or
#2 (HDPE) on the bottom or side of the container. Remove and discard lids.Rinsed out unbroken jars and bottles. Remove lids and recycle if they are steel. Rinsed out food and beverage containers. Also aerosol cans and paint cans. Make sure leftover paint is dry before recycling. These items generated at home can be recycled curbside in most of Charleston County and in limited areas of Berkeley and Dorchester. You can also drop these items at any convenience center location.
Tin cans are actually 99% steel, with a thin layer of tin added to prevent rusting. It takes about four times as much energy to make steel from virgin ore as it does to make the same steel from scrap.*
Most bottles and jars contain at least 25% recycled glass. Recycling glass saves energy, mining waste, and air pollution.*
PET (#1 plastic) bottles are actually a form of polyester. In case you were wondering, it takes 1,050 recycled HDPE (#2 plastic) bottles to make one six foot plastic park bench.*
USED OIL and Oil Filters
Please take your used oil to a convenience center or Romneys Street or Bee's Ferry Road Convenience Center.
*Resource: The Recycler's Handbook, Simple Things You Can Do, The Earth Works Group, Earth Works Press, Berkely, California, 1990.
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