Recycling

What you can recycle at Hurlburt Field

Old Cell Phones . Lead-Acid Batteries . All Scrap Metal . Most Cable and Wire . All Paper . Newspaper . All Junk Mail . Magazines . Telephone Books . Catalogs . Toner Cartridges . Steel Cans (Tin) . Drained Oil & Hydraulic Cans . Aluminum Cans . Moving Paper & Moving Boxes . Wooden Pallets . Brown Paper Shopping Bags . Cardboard . All Books (Hard & Soft Cover) . Ink-Jet Cartridges . Clear . Plastic Bottles: Soda . Milk . Water . Liquid Soap (Numbers 1 & 2 only) . Mixed Paper: Packaging from Cereal . Crackers . Candy . Soda (Paperboard) and Fax Paper . NCR Paper . File Folders . Dividers

The Hurlburt Field Recycling Center, on the east-side of the base in Bldg. 91360, recycles more than 3.7 million pounds of materials each year. Scheduled pick-ups are made to every building on base and base housing. The center accepts all paper products including books, magazines, junk mail, brown shopping bags; aluminum and steel cans; plastic bottles; cardboard and toner cartridges.

An additional drop-off point is on Recycling Way, adjacent to the commissary parking lot.

A percentage of recycling profits is given to the morale, welfare and recreation fund annually for quality of life activities at Hurlburt Field. Additionally, some profits may be allocated to help fund pollution prevention projects.