Charlottesville Recycling Services
434-989-0681
Evergreen Recycling is a Charlottesville recycling service for businesses, offices, apartments, and schools. We can take your recyclables to the recycling center and leave you with more time.
We can help create a system that’s easy to use, works for your team, and fits into the space you have. Our source-separated recycling guarantees your materials are turned into new products and not landfilled.
Charlottesville Recycling pickup service for offices,
apartments, businesses, and schools.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do you recycle/What materials can Evergreen take?
We can recycle:
- Office Paper & Mixed Paper
- Newspaper & Magazines
- Brown Paper
- Boxboard
- Cardboard
- Plastic Bottles (Plastic 1,2,&5)
- Steel, Tin & Aluminum Cans
- Glass Bottles & Jars
- Plastic Bags (must be clean and dry, and made of stretchy plastic)
What cannot be recycled?
We Cannot Recycle:
- Styrofoam
- Plastic 3,4,6,7
- Plastic bags that are not stretchy plastic
- Plastic Bags that are dirty or wet
- Boxboard milk, drink or soup carton.
- Any type of glass that is not a bottle or a jar
- Keurig style coffee pods
- Straws, plastic forks, bottle caps
Do you provide containers?
Yes. We can provide indoor and outdoor containers in several different sizes.
What about recycling electronics, hazardous waste or compost?
Please Contact These Providers:
- Compost – Black Bear Composting
- Electronics recycling – Best Buy
- Batteries & Lightbulbs – Battery Plus
- Motor Oil, Antifreeze, or Paint – Ivy Transfer Station
Do you recycle for homes?
We do recycling for some estates. We are not always the best option for neighborhood recycling.
Do you do document shredding?
We do not. We did document shredding for many years. We sold that part of our business in 2019.
How do I know the materials are actually getting recycled?
We do source separate recycling, the method with the highest recycling recovery rates. Our materials go to the Paper Sort Building and the McIntire Recycling Center. Both of these are run by the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) who are transparent about where the materials go. RSWA is able to sell paper and cardboard, as well as plastic 1&2 to Sonoco Recycling. All metals are sold to Gerdau. Glass goes to Strategic Materials in North Carolina. Plastic Bags (roughly a million per year just from Cville/Albemarle) go to a TREX facility in Winchester Virginia. They make splinter-free recycled plastic lumber for decking and benches.
