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Don’t see what you need? Contact UW Recycling.
UW Recycling is pleased to provide this A-Z List to help the Seattle campus make decisions about materials. Please see the links below for information about areas not seviced by UW Recycling:
- Leased Buildings
- Housing and Food Services Buildings
- UW Medical Center Facilities
- Harborview Medical Center
Be sure to consult the UW Records Retention Schedule before disposing of any records (documents, photographs, slides, audiotapes, videotapes, CDs/DVDs, etc.) Also, any items purchased with University funds that are no longer needed, no matter the condition, must be transferred to UW Surplus.
Remember that UW has its own contracts with various solid waste and recycling vendors that are separate from those at private residences or other businesses within the City of Seattle.
"What do I do with...?" A-Z List
Don’t see what you need? Contact UW Recycling.
- Aerosol Cans
- Air Pillows
- Aluminum and Tin Cans
- Antifreeze
- Appliances (working & non-working)
- Aseptic Packaging
- Audiotapes
- Ballasts, Fluorescent Lighting
- Batteries
- Binders, 3-Ring
- Biodegradable Serviceware
- Biomedical Waste
- Books (hardbound & softbound)
- Boxes
- Bubble Jet Printer Cartridges
- Bubble Wrap
- Buffer Bottles
- CDs
- Cans & Bottles
- Cardboard
- Cartridges for Printers & Copiers
- Cell Phones
- Chemical Containers, Empty
- Chemicals
- Coffee Cups & Lids
- Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)
- Compost
- Compostable Serviceware
- Computer Disks
- Computers & Peripherals (working & non-working)
- Concrete
- Confidential Electronic Media
- Confidential Paper Documents
- Construction & Demolition (C&D) Waste
- Copier Cartridges
- Copier/Printer Components
- Cross-Cut Shredded Paper
- DVDs
- Dairy Tubs
- E.Media
- Electronics (working & non-working)
- Envelopes
- Equipment (working & non-working)
- Ferrous Metal
- File Folders
- Film and Photographic Chemicals
- Fluorescent Lamps
- Foam/Foam Board
- Food Waste
- Frozen gel packs
- Furniture
- Fuser Drums for Printers/Copiers
- Garbage
- Gas Cylinders
- Gel packs, refrigerated or frozen
- Glass Bottles & Jars
- Grease
- Halogen Bulbs
- Hardbound Books
- Hazardous Waste
- Helium Tanks
- Imaging Units for Printers/Copiers
- Incandescent Bulbs
- Ink Jet Printer Cartridges
- Journals and Magazines
- Juice Cartons
- Lab Glass
- Label Backing Sheets
- Landscape Waste
- Laptop Batteries
- Laser Printer Cartridges
- Lightbulbs/Lamps (Fluorescent)
- Lightbulbs/Lamps (Incandescent)
- Lithographic Silver
- Machinery (working & non-working)
- Magazines and Journals
- Magnetic Media
- Metal
- Microfiche
- Microwaves
- Milk Cartons
- Mixed Containers
- Monitors
- Newspapers & Newsprint
- Office Supplies
- Oil
- Packing Peanuts
- Paint
- Pallets - Wood
- Paper
- Paper Towels - Kitchen
- Paper Towels - Restroom
- Phonebooks
- Photographic Chemicals and Film
- Photographic Slides
- Photographs
- Pipette Tip Boxes and Trays
- Pizza Delivery Boxes
- Plastic Bags
- Plastic Bottles & Jars
- Plastic Film
- Plastics, Hard
- Plywood
- Printer/Copier Components
- Projector Lamps
- Propane Tanks
- Refrigerators
- Scrap Metal
- Sharps
- Shredded Paper
- Shrink Wrap
- Slides, Photographic
- Softbound Books & Journals
- Solvents
- Sticky Notes
- Strip-Cut Shredded Paper
- Styrofoam Blocks
- Styrofoam Peanuts
- Televisions
- 3-Ring Binders
- Tip Boxes, Pipette
- Tires
- Tissue Paper
- Toner Cartridges
- Transfer Rollers for Printers/Copiers
- Transparencies
- Trash
- UV Lamps
- Videotapes
- Wood Waste - Clean
- Wood Waste - Painted, Treated, Etc.
- X-Rays
- Yard Waste
- Yogurt Containers