Recycling
Working Together
To Reduce Waste
Keep Pickens Beautiful is dedicated to reducing trash headed to the landfill.
While many factors play a role in making recycling successful, KPB focuses on the three key factors outlined by Keep America Beautiful to improve recycling in America: convenience, communication, and cause (getting people to understand the many benefits of recycling and why they should care).
Pickens County got a new recycling center in 2020, and it is rapidly growing into the recycling destination of Northwest Georgia. As we all work together, we are diverting significant waste from our landfills.
Join KPB and the Pickens Recycling Center Team to help transform Pickens into the regions recycling leader!
The Pickens Recycling Centers
Appalachian Court
390 Appalachian Court
Jasper, Georgia 30143
East Side
9720 Cove Rd
Marble Hill Ga, 30148
Event Recycling
Keep Pickens Beautiful is here to help you reduce the waste at your event by offering a recycling option to your guests and vendors.
Business Recycling
Keep Pickens Beautiful is here to help you reduce the waste at your business by offering a recycling option to your guests and employees.
Hard-To-Recycle Materials
If you have old TVs or monitors, styrofoam, hazardous chemicals, or other hard-to-recycle materials, learn about other recyclers in the region who can help.
Document Shredding
For many years, KPB sponsored on-site shredding. A truck would come to our office for community members to watch their documents get shredded.
Pickens County now offers free on-site shredding at the central recycling center on Appalachian Court! You can take your documents there whenever you’re ready to shred them! There’s no need to wait for a quarterly truck any more!
American Flag Recycling
When the time comes to replace your worn USA flag, please dispose of it properly. Pickens County has three locations:
A flag disposal receptacle is available at Lee Newton Park in the Veterans Memorial Park.Â
The Community Thrift Store in Jasper also has a flag deposit in the front of the store.
The Pickens County offices have a flag recycling bin in the hallway from the lobby towards the tax offices.
Would you like to recycle?
Here are a few tips:
Always recycle these items:
- Mixed Paper (newspaper, unwanted mail, white and colored paper, telephone books, magazines, soft back books, manila folders, pasteboard from cereal and dry food boxes, paper grocery bags, etc.)
- Plastics (grade 1 & 2 containers – drink, milk, detergent, etc. – remove tops)
- Glass (containers – clear, brown, green)
- Scrap Tires
- Cardboard (no cardboard with wax coating)
- Aluminum Cans – empty contents
- Metals (tin cans – rinse out food, scrap metal, large appliances, etc.)
Georgia Recycling Info
- There are more than 400 recycling businesses in Georgia, employing over 13,000 Georgians.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for 3 hours.
- It takes five 2-liter plastic bottles (Soft Drink & Water) to make 1 square foot of carpet.
- Recycling a glass bottle can save enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours.
- Georgia is one of the top recycling states in the nation.
- Georgia firms process over 12 million scrap tires annually.
- Since 1991, more than 2.5 million Christmas trees have been recycled in Georgia.
Do not recycle these items:
- Paper contaminated by food (pizza boxes, paper plates, napkins, etc.)
- Plastic liners from food packaging
- Wax milk cartons, wax paper, juice boxes, frozen food boxes, and other paper coated with wax
- Light bulbs, mirrors, broken glass, and Styrofoam
- Pet food cans
Recycling Saves!
- Scarce Landfill Space
- Expenses of Waste Disposal
- Nation’s Scarce Natural Resources
- Energy Sources Such as Electricity, Petroleum, and Coal
- Trees
How Recycling Works:
When we take items that can be recycled to the Recycling Center, we help our community reduce the amount of garbage going to the landfill. Today only about 11% of trash in Pickens County is recovered annually for recycling. The goal is to increase this to 25%.
Where do recyclables go after collection? Manufacturers use them to make new products – recycling’s second step. The third step is when you buy items made from recycled material.
Do your part by recycling and then buying items made from recycled material.
Recycle!
Thanks for helping to reduce our landfill waste!
Hours (all locations)
Tuesday – Saturday 8:00AM-5:00PM
Pickens County Recycling Center
390 Appalachian Court
Jasper, Georgia 30143
phone:Â 706-253-8871
Scrap tires may be recycled at the Appalachian Court Recycle Center.
East Side Recycling and Waste Management
9720 Cove Rd
Marble Hill Ga, 30148
phone:Â 770-893-2644
The East Side Recycling Center takes all recyclables except appliances.
Reduce and Reuse!
Recycle reusable clothing, household items, and furniture at the Community Thrift Store.Â
Address:
110 Samaritan Drive, Jasper, GA.Â
Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00am – 4:00pmÂ
Phone:
706-253-7770 for additional information and directions
Recycling Guide
Please sort your materials according to these guidelines.
KPB Sponsored Banners at the Recycling Centers
Keep Pickens Beautiful worked with the Pickens Recycling Center to design and print banners for the main center and the East Side center on Cove Road. The hope is that these large color-coded banners will assist visitors in understanding which recyclables belong in each bin.
