QUALIFIED RECYCLING PROGRAM

 

WHO WE ARE

The Joint Base San Antonio Qualified Recycling Program, or QRP, is operated by the 802nd Civil Engineer Squadron.

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Joint Base San Antonio Qualified Recycling Program, or JBSA QRP, is to protect human health and the environment, conserve natural resources, and promote recycling, an essential part of the U.S. federal government’s overall environmental initiative to reduce the environmental impact of and amount of waste generated by the U.S. military services.

The QRP’s goal is to encourage the base populace to serve as responsible stewards of the environment, by diverting solid waste from the landfills through the implementation of waste minimization practices such as reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, in order to ensure a safe, healthy and sustainable nation for current and future generations.

The QRP will assist the base populace in diverting from landfills municipal solid waste and construction and demolition waste generated at JBSA in order to:

  • Economically manage a self-supporting recycling program;
  • Effectively reduce, reuse and recycle solid waste to the maximum extent possible to facilitate Air Force /Department of Defense objectives such as diversion goals;
  • Provide comprehensive diversion services to JBSA, including awareness, collection of recyclable materials, and data collection;
  • Protect human health and the environment; and
  • Comply with applicable federal, state, local and Air Force regulatory requirements.
JBSA RECYCLING CENTERS
SOCIAL MEDIA
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
QRP TIP OF THE MONTH

Recycling Roundup Tips

  • On game day and every day, after you enjoy your favorite beverage, remember to recycle your empty, clean, and dry aluminum cans and plastic bottles and jugs. Contact your Recycling Center or QRP with other recycling questions: JBSA-Fort Sam Houston and JBSA-Camp Bullis, 210-221-4888; JBSA-Lackland and JBSA-Chapman Training Annex and Port San Antonio, 210-671-4800; JBSA-Randolph, 210-889-1282; 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil, https://www.jbsa.mil/Resources/Environmental/Qualified-Recycling-Program/ or www.Facebook.com/qrp.jbsa.  Thank you for supporting your JBSA QRP by Recycling Right!

  • Tackle waste this football season by Recycling Right!  Please help stop contamination by never putting food, liquids, chip/snack bags, takeout/fast food containers, or soiled pizza boxes in a recycling container.  Also remember, propane tanks are not recyclable at JBSA Recycle Centers.  Contact your Recycling Center or QRP with other recycling questions: JBSA-Fort Sam Houston and JBSA-Camp Bullis, 210-221-4888; JBSA-Lackland and JBSA-Chapman Training Annex and Port San Antonio, 210-671-4800; JBSA-Randolph, 210-889-1282; 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil, https://www.jbsa.mil/Resources/Environmental/Qualified-Recycling-Program/ or www.Facebook.com/qrp.jbsa.  Thank you for supporting your JBSA QRP by Recycling Right!

  • Rats, roaches, maggots, and flies!  Oh, my!  That’s what your JBSA Recycling team often finds in the recycling bins and cardboard recycling trailers, on base, when someone contaminates recycling receptacles with foods and liquids.  Please help us stop contamination by only tossing EMPTY, CLEAN, and DRY items into a recycling bin, cart, or trailer, and be sure to separate recyclables into the correct bins.  Remember:  We RECYCLE RIGHT at JBSA!  Contact your Recycling Center or QRP with other recycling questions:  JBSA-Fort Sam Houston and JBSA-Camp Bullis, 210-221-4888; JBSA-Lackland and JBSA-Chapman Training Annex and Port San Antonio, 210-671-4800; JBSA-Randolph, 210-889-1282; 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil, https://www.jbsa.mil/Resources/Environmental/Qualified-Recycling-Program/ or www.Facebook.com/qrp.jbsa.  Thank you for supporting your JBSA QRP by Recycling Right!

  • Paper & Cardboard recycling – Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 246.200 and 246.202 establish the requirement for JBSA (and other installations & federal agencies) to recycle high-grade paper (office paper) and waste corrugated containers (cardboard).  Please help JBSA meet our federal requirements by placing your paper in appropriate bins and your cardboard in appropriate bins or trailers at your work locations or by delivering them to your JBSA Recycle Center!  Call your Recycle Center for location/directions – JBSA-Fort Sam Houston 210-221-4888; JBSA-Lackland 210-671-4800; JBSA-Randolph 210-889-1282.  Thank you for supporting your Qualified Recycling Program by Recycling Right!

  • Recycling on base at JBSA is different than recycling off-base.  Off-base, it’s generally okay to put all the recyclables in one cart.  On-base, your Recycle Centers need you to SEPARATE clean, empty, dry recyclables into different carts for proper collection, baling, and sale to end-market recyclers. If your facility needs more recycling carts, please talk to your Facility Manager or call your recycle center: JBSA-Lackland at 210-671-4800, JBSA-Randolph at 210-889-1282, or at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston at 210-221-4888.  For questions about what can & cannot be recycled at JBSA, call your Recycle Center or email the Qualified Recycling Program at 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil or find the QRP online at https://www.jbsa.mil/Resources/Environmental/Qualified-Recycling-Program/ or www.Facebook.com/qrp.jbsa  (For on-base residential recycling, please refer to recycling instructions from your housing office or trash & recycling service provider.)  Thank you for supporting the JBSA QRP by Recycling Right!  

  • PCSing or ARRIVING at JBSA?  Please remember to recycle your moving boxes at the JBSA Recycle Centers.  Do NOT put cardboard boxes in the base refuse containers. If you’re departing JBSA and doing a DITY (aka PPM) move, your JBSA Recycle Centers can help you with boxes. Questions? Call your JBSA Qualified Recycling Program (QRP) Recycle Center at JBSA-Lackland at 210-671-4800, at JBSA-Randolph at 210-889-1282 or at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston at 210-221-4888, or email the QRP at 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil, or find the QRP online at https://www.jbsa.mil/Resources/Environmental/Qualified-Recycling-Program/ or www.Facebook.com/qrp.jbsa.  Thank you for supporting YOUR JBSA QRP by Recycling Right!

  • Illegal Dumping Notice & Information:
    Furniture and cardboard boxes     are NOT to be placed in installation refuse (trash) containers. NO items from on-base housing or ANY location off-base are to be placed in ANY roll-off or dumpster at JBSA. Personal furniture needing to be discarded is NOT allowed in ANY Government disposal container. Government furniture needing to be discarded can only be discarded once approved by the DLA Disposition Services office (formerly DRMO).  If approved, it can only be placed in a government roll-off, NOT in a small trash dumpster.  Please take metal furniture and cardboard to your Recycle Center. The roll-offs on JBSA are ONLY for government scrap metals, government construction/demolition/wood project wastes, or government green waste/yard waste.  Questions?  Please see the Illegal Dumping fact sheet and flyer for more information; contact DLADS at 210-780-4938 or DRMSSanAntonioDSR@dla.mil; the Qualified Recycling Program at 210-671-4800 or 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil; or the Solid Waste Contract Officer Representatives (CORs) at JBSA-Lackland at 210-671-7219, at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston or JBSA-Camp Bullis at 210-221-5500, or at JBSA-Randolph at 210-652-1346.  

  • Did You Know?  JBSA recycling centers accept ink & toner cartridges for reuse & recycling!  Keep them out of the trash can without the hassle of mailing them back to the manufacturer.  Just place your old cartridge in the box from the new cartridge and leave it next to your recycling carts.  Please keep ink and toner cartridges in separate boxes.  Questions?  Call your Qualified Recycling Program (QRP) at JBSA-Lackland/JBSA-Chapman Training Annex at 210-671-4800; at JBSA-Randolph at 210-889-1282; and at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston/JBSA-Camp Bullis at 210-221-4888; email them at 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil; or find them online at https://www.jbsa.mil/Resources/Environmental/Qualified-Recycling-Program/ or www.Facebook.com/qrp.jbsa.    

  • JBSA Recycle Centers CANNOT accept electronics for recycling or disposal.  However, computers, televisions, cell phones, etc. contain valuable precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, tin, and zinc that can be recovered. Give used/unwanted electronics to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), formerly known as DRMO, who will send them to a de-manufacturer. Please contact DLA at 210-780-5019, DRMSSanAntonioDSR@dla.mil, or JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, building 4195 (2999 Parker Hill Rd.) for questions and guidance. Electronics should never be thrown in a dumpster, and leaving ANY items outside the Recycle Center gates is considered illegal dumping. 

  • How recycling @ JBSA works: (1) You put empty, clean and dry recyclables in the appropriate bins; (2) Bins go to recycle centers; (3) All commodities are baled separately for sale; (4) Sales proceeds fund equipment repairs & purchases, operating supplies, safety equipment and PPE for Recycle Center employees!  More trash = increased landfill disposal fees.  More clean recycling = better-funded program.  Questions about what can/cannot be recycled @ JBSA? Contact your Qualified Recycling Program!

  • ​DYK?  Participation in JBSA’s recycling program is mandatory.  The JBSA Qualified Recycling Program accepts clean, empty and dry recyclables including plastic bottles and jugs (plastics #1 and #2), aluminum cans, corrugated cardboard & paperboard (please flatten boxes), paper, scrap metal, wood pallets, and ink & toner cartridges.  Item types must be separated into their respective carts (not mixed together). Contact your Facility Manager for recycling locations in your building, and contact the QRP with any other recycling questions.

  • Contamination & Wish-Cycling: “Wish-cycling” is the practice of tossing questionable items in the recycling bin, hoping they can be recycled. As much as we all want to be good stewards of the environment and recycle everything, many items are not recyclable.  And, putting the wrong items in a recycling bin can ruin otherwise good recyclables, causing them to end up in a landfill.  At JBSA, only recycle clean empty and dry recyclables including aluminum cans, plastic bottles and jugs (plastics #1 and #2 only), cardboard, scrap metal, wood pallets, and printer cartridges.  If you’re not sure if an item is recyclable, please call one of the JBSA recycle centers for assistance or put it in the trash. 

  • DYK?  Recycling on-base @ JBSA is different than recycling off-base!  Off base, it’s generally okay to put all the recyclables in one cart. On base, your recycle centers need you to SEPARATE clean, empty, dry recyclables into different carts for proper collection, baling, and sale to end-market recyclers. If your facility needs more recycling carts, please talk to your Facility Manager or call your recycle center.  (For on-base residential recycling, please refer to recycling instructions from your housing office or trash & recycling service provider.) 

    Roll-off & Dumpster Etiquette Tips

  • A Roll-Off container is a large metal container with no top and no lid, and can be any color. They are larger than the small trash dumpsters, which have lids. The smaller trash dumpsters with lids are primarily for bagged office trash and nothing else.  Specifically, WOOD items (pallets/lumber/fencing/etc.) DO NOT belong in any smaller trash dumpsters.

  • NO items from on-base housing or ANY location off-base are to be placed in ANY roll-off or dumpster at JBSA. PERSONAL furniture needing discarded is NOT allowed in ANY government disposal container. Government furniture needing to be discarded can only be discarded once approved by the DLA Disposition Services office (formerly DRMO). If approved, it can only be placed in a government-owned roll-off, NOT in a small trash dumpster.  If it is metal furniture, please take it to your Recycle Center. 

  • The roll-offs on JBSA are ONLY for government scrap metals, government construction/demolition/wood project wastes, or government green waste/yard waste. 

  • Green waste roll-offs are for brush, grass, leaves, mulch, and tree branches 4” or less in diameter.  Green waste roll-offs are NOT for plastic trash bags, soda cans, plastic bottles, other recyclable materials, hazardous materials or their containers, any kind of refuse/trash, soil, or rocks.  Green waste roll-offs are located at: JBSA-Randolph at buildings 1051 and 1350; JBSA-Fort Sam Houston at buildings 3100 & 4197; JBSA-Lackland at building 7535 & Range Road, near building 8670.

  • Please refrain from throwing the above-mentioned trash items in green waste roll-offs! When we do, the contents become contaminated, and compost & mulch facilities in San Antonio will not accept them. This means the entire roll-off goes to the landfill, wasting good efforts and increasing expense to the government. 

  • If you have government material to discard and you’re not quite sure where it should go, please call the Qualified Recycling Program at 210-671-4800 or 210-671-5371; or the solid waste Contract Officer Representatives at JBSA-Lackland at 210-671-7219, at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston and JBSA Camp Bullis at 210-221-5500, at JBSA-Randolph at 210-652-1346.

    Have questions about anything above?  Contact your Facility Manager, call your Recycle Center (JBSA-Lackland and JBSA-Chapman Training Annex at 210-671-4800; JBSA-Randolph at 210-889-1282; JBSA Fort Sam Houston and JBSA-Camp Bullis at 210-221-4888), or email your Qualified Recycling Program at 802CES.CEIE.Recycling@us.af.mil.  Thank you for Recycling Right @ JBSA!