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      • Current major projects
        • Behavioral Health Teaching Facility (BHTF)
        • Foster School Expansion
        • Health Sciences Education Building
        • Portage Bay Crossing
        • NWH Childbirth Center
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        • Current solicitations
        • Business equity
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      • Find a project
      • COVID-19 impacts
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Vehicle batteries, oil, tires, and antifreeze from the University’s fleet are recycled through Fleet Services.

See Environmental Health & Safety’s procedures for disposing of hazardous vehicle waste including oil, oil filters and batteries.

To request a special collection of lead acid batteries, fill out an Online Chemical Waste Collection request listing them as “Batteries, lead acid.” Please cover all exposed terminals with duct tape prior to requesting a pickup.

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      • Aerosol cans
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      • Chemicals, solvents and hazardous waste
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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 may be limited at the following areas:

  • Harborview Medical Center

  • Housing & Food Services buildings

  • Leased buildings

  • Off-campus buildings

  • UW Medical Center 

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

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