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Go to Environmental Health & Safety’s information on compressed gas cylinders.

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      • Coffee pods and K-Cups
      • Compost
      • Compostable serviceware
      • Confidential eMedia
      • Confidential paper documents
      • Construction and demolition (C&D) waste
      • Freezer gel packs
      • Garbage and landfill
      • Gas cylinders
      • Lab glass
      • Lamps: fluorescent, other mercury-containing and incandescent
      • Landscape and yard waste
      • Lithographic silver
      • Metal
      • Mixed recycling
      • Oil
      • Paint
      • Paper
      • Photographic slides
      • Pipette tip boxes and trays
      • Plastic film
      • Printer/copier cartridges and components
      • Sharps
      • Styrofoam and packing peanuts
      • Surplus
      • Transparencies
      • Vehicle waste
      • Wood waste
      • eMedia (electronic media)

Other areas

UW Recycling services the Seattle campus of the University of Washington. Services may be limited in the following areas due to location or unit funding sources.

  • Harborview Medical Center

  • Housing & Food Services buildings

  • Leased buildings

  • Off-campus buildings

  • UW Medical Centers 

Are you in one of these locations? Learn more here.

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UW Recycling

recycle@uw.edu

206-685-2811

Office staff hours: M-F 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m (Publications Services Building opens at 8 a.m.)

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