City of Centerville Recycling Center
The Centerville Recycling Center is OPEN.
101 Industrial Way
Centerville, GA 31028
Hours:
- Tuesdays: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Thursdays: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Saturdays: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Utility Superintendent
Chris Coleman
Email Us
478-953-3222
ext. 245
What’s Accepted at the Recycling Center?
Paper
The Centerville Recycling Center accepts all types of paper. Please separate your recyclables in the following manner:
- Newspaper (including glossy inserts): Remove the newspaper from sacks or plastic wraps before placing in the bin.
- Mixed Paper: This includes junk mail, adding machine tape, phone messages, colored paper, envelopes (including those with plastic windows), brochures, copy paper, newsletters, post-it notes, paper with tape, lined legal, pad or school tablet, notebook paper.
- Computer Paper: We accept green or white bar feeder type computer paper, shredded computer paper.
- Shredded Paper: Any color shredded office paper is accepted.
- Magazines: Before recycling, consider other uses such as sharing with a friend or donate to public facilities.
- Phone Books and White Paper Manuals: We accept these along with the glue binding.
- Regular Cardboard and Paperboard Food Containers: This includes cereal boxes, shoe boxes, chipboard, and brown paper bags.
- Corrugated Cardboard: Moving boxes should be broken down and flattened.
- Drink Boxes/Milk/Juice Carton: These containers are made of paper that is coated with plastic or aluminum. Rinse and flatten all containers before bringing them to the cardboard recycling area.
- Hardback and Paperback Books: We provide special bins for these items.
Metals
Metal should be clean and separated into the following categories:
- Ferrous Metals: These metals contain iron, which is magnetic. This includes food containers, metal lids to glass containers, metal hangers, and many appliances. There is a $20 charge for each appliance that contains freon.
- Non-Ferrous Metals: Non-magnetic metals. This includes copper tubing, plumbing materials, electrical wire, brass keys or fixtures, aluminum siding, shed doors, and lead weights.
- Aluminum Drink Cans: These non-magnetic items should be separated from other aluminum products.
Plastic
The Centerville Recycling Center accepts all plastics labeled 1-7. Plastic bags are not accepted, but can be disposed of in a dumpster on site.
Glass
The Centerville Recycling Center accepts all color glass bottles.
Miscellaneous
Other items that the Recycling Center accepts include:
- Motor oil, cooking oil, and antifreeze
- Hearing Aids & Glasses
Please rinse all metal containers before dropping off at the recycling center.
