Procedures for On-Campus Buildings
For information about disposal procedures on the Seattle campus, choose from the list below. For items not listed, contact Recycling & Solid Waste. Note: because the University of Washington is a commercial account, some disposal rules and regulations on campus are different than those at private residences.
- 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
- 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 Board
- Food Waste
- Furniture
- Fuser Drums for Printers/Copiers
- Garbage
- Glass Bottles & Jars
- Grease
- Hardbound Books
- Hazardous Waste
- 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
- Lithographic Silver
- Machinery (working & non-working)
- Magazines and Journals
- Magnetic Media
- Metal
- Microfiche
- Microwaves
- Milk Cartons
- 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
- Pizza Delivery Boxes
- Plastic Bags
- Plastic Bottles & Jars
- Plastic Film
- Plywood
- Printer/Copier Components
- 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
- Videotapes
- Wood Waste - Clean
- Wood Waste - Painted, Treated, Etc.
- Yard Waste
- Yogurt Containers