Recycling

Recycling Home | Special Programs

Gettysburg College has won national and regional awards for its recycling program. The college has also recently switched to a single stream recycling program. This system allows for increased convenience, as it is no longer necessary to sort between aluminum, paper, glass, and plastic recycling bins. Each student residence is equipped with a trash can and a blue recycling bin for increased student accessibility.

Some items cannot be recycled in single stream recycling, but can be placed in designated locations across campus.

For more information on both single-stream recycling and special recycling please visit the Recycling Programming Page.

Items that can be recycled:

• Newspapers (including all inserts)
• Magazines and catalogs
• Junk mail
• Cardboard and paperboard boxes (including cereal boxes without liners and pizza boxes);
• Corrugate boxes
• Computer printouts
• Books (including paperbacks, textbooks, and hardbacks)
• Aerosol Cans
• Office paper (including typing, fax, copy, letterhead, NCR) and envelopes
• Brown paper bags (kraft)
• Glass containers such as jars and bottles
• Ferrous and bimetal food and beverage containers
• Non-metallic wrapping paper
• Aluminum food and beverage containers
• Aluminum foil and aluminum pie pans
• Narrow-neck plastic containers (other than for motor oil) carry plastic resin identification codes #1 through 7.
• Wide-mouth containers such as peanut butter, margarine/butter tubs, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise, whipped topping, and prescription bottles (please note that the lids and caps do not need to be removed)
• Rigid plastics which include plastic milk/soda crates, plastic buckets with metal handles, plastic laundry baskets, plastic lawn furniture, plastic totes, plastic drums, plastic coolers, plastic flower pots, plastic drinking cups/glasses, plastic 5-gallon water bottles, plastic pallets, and empty plastic garbage/recycling bins
• Bagged plastic film (for example: grocery bags contained within 1-bag, or stretch-film and/or shrink wrap contained within 1-bag)
• Aseptic/gable-top milk and juice cartons

Items that can be recycled in designated locations across campus:

• Batteries: place in the collection box next to the mailroom in the CUB
• Printer Cartridges: envelopes located at the mailroom in the CUB
• Bubble wrap and packing peanuts: return to the mailroom in the CUB
• Plastic Bags: Bins located in the CUB and residence halls
• Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Tube-style and Compact Fluorescents (CFLs)
• Car Batteries and Oil from Campus Vehicles: West Building
• Computer Hardware: Information Technology in Plank
• Used Cell Phones: Information Technology in Plank
• Toner Cartridges: Information Technology, Academic Departments
• Scrap Metal: West Building Lot