Recycling Guidelines

Transylvania’s recycling program follows the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government guidelines, available at lfucg.com. The blue recycling bins in residence halls are for the following items, and are not for general garbage.

Paper Products

Boxboard (cereal, cracker, cake mix, spaghetti boxes with lining removed)
Brown paper bags
Catalogs
Pizza boxes
Corrugated cardboard (remove any packing material)
Magazines
Newspapers, with inserts
Office and school papers
Phone books
Unwanted mail, fliers, and door hangers

Cans

Aerosol (empty only)
Aluminum cans
Steel food cans (please rinse, labels can stay on)

Plastic

Bottles and jugs made of #1 or #2 plastic only (soda, milk, water, juice, detergent, bleach, fabric softener)

Glass

Clear
Brown
Green
Blue

Transylvania partners with TerraCycle, a company that collects items that are normally landfill-bound. TerraCycle makes a variety of products out of this “trash” and pays Transylvania for each item collected. This income supports our battery recycling program. Items TerraCycle accepts are:

Candy wrappers (Mars/Wrigley and Cadbury)

Skittles
M&Ms
Swedish fish
Twix
Snickers
Sour Patch Kids
Etc.

Cookie wrappers (Nabisco and Keebler)

Chips Ahoy
Oreos
Etc.

Chip bags

Lays
Doritos
Cheetos
Fritos

Energy bar wrappers

Clif Bar
Odwalla

Gum wrappers (ALL wrapping - blister packs, individual wrappers, cellophane wrapper, packages, etc.)

Trident
Dentyne
Stride
Bubblicious

Writing instruments

PaperMate
Sharpie

Colgate waste

Toothbrushes
Empty toothpaste tubes
Packaging for toothbrushes & toothpaste

Cheese packaging

Kraft singles
Kraft string cheese
Polly-O string cheese
Philadelphia cream cheese
Kraft natural cheese
Cracker Barrel cheese
Velveeta
Kraft grated parmesan
Athenos
Breakston’s
Knudsen

Scotch brand tape dispensers
Elmer’s glue waste

Sticks
Bottles

Starbucks coffee bags
CapriSun and HonestKids drink pouches
Stoneyfield yogurt cups (NOTE: these are NOT recyclable in the blue bins)