Recycling is easy on campus. With more than 8,000 students living on campus, it is our goal for recycling to be as easy as possible in the residence halls.
All rooms are provided a 7-Gallon recycling bin at the beginning of the school year. This bin is a community resource for everyone in the room to collect their recyclables.
Please contact FIXIT if you are missing a recycling bin or if your recycling bin gets damaged.
Use the Waste Wizard to discover what you can recycle in your residence hall today!
Throwing away your waste in the compactors is easy! Just follow these simple steps:
Please for your safety and the environment:
Drop off locations for alkaline batteries, used pizza boxes and plastic bags are located in all residence hall lobbies.
By partnering with Sustainability Future Leaders Club, plastic bags are collected from residence halls lobbies, The Thrifty Cat and inside Patterson Office Tower and are repurposed into sleeping mats for Lexington’s unhoused. Learn more about BBN Tackles Plastic, UK’s plastic bag reuse program.
Drop off unwanted, or broken, electronics and appliances to the front desk of your residence hall to be recycled.
Common electronics and appliances:
Speak to your RA, the front desk or email us at recycle@uky.edu if you have questions about how to dispose of large bulky items or additional electronics and appliances.