JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas –
Active-duty members and employees at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph recycle tons of materials each year and the place where those materials go to is the JBSA-Randolph Recycling Center.
The recycling center, located in building 1152 at East Perimeter and Bone roads, is the center for JBSA-Randolph's efforts to help the environment by keeping waste and trash out of area landfills.
Clarence Denis, JBSA-Randolph Recycling Center program manager, said the center helps recycle 45 tons of materials each year through its programs and services.
"We are doing our part to help save the environment," Denis said. "If we recycle, it's better for the community and the environment. We want less (waste) going into the landfills."
The recycling center is open Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., to service members, employees and anyone with access to JBSA-Randolph. Materials the recycling center accepts are paper, corrugated cardboard, plastic, glass bottles, scrap metal and ink toner cartridges.
For information on what materials can be brought and recycled at the Randolph Recycling Center, call 652-5606.
Containers at the recycling center, located in front of building 1139, are accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Also, JBSA-Randolph military members, employees and retirees can bring personal or private documents to be shredded at the recycling center. The center has a shredder and two bailers on site.
The recycling center does not accept or recycle any electronic equipment, including TVs and computers.
Denis said the recycling center has 1,500 containers for cans, plastics and bottles and 2,000 containers for paper, at buildings and locations on JBSA-Randolph. In addition, there are trailers and dumpsters at several installation locations where cardboard can be recycled, including a trailer in the parking lot between the Commissary and exchange.
"People (at JBSA-Randolph) do recycle," Denis said. "They are doing their part. We get at least a 90 percent participation rate in the recycling program here. It would be nice to have 100 percent recycled and nothing go to the landfill at all."
Of the 45 tons that are recycled at JBSA-Randolph each year, Denis said 24 tons are cardboard, 12 tons are shredded paper and nine tons are cans and plastics.
Denis said recycling helps save JBSA-Randolph $500,000 per year in transporting materials and waste to landfills. He said all proceeds from the recycling program go back into the installation for programs and projects.
The installation's recycling program was established in 1999.