Refrigerators

Georgia Power Refrigerator/Freezer Recycling Program
If you are a Georgia Power customer and have a working secondary refrigerator you want to recycle, take advantage of Georgia Power’s Refrigerator Recycling Program. We’ll pick up and recycle your second refrigerator or freezer for free and give you $35.

Here’s how it works: If you live within the approved pilot program area, and have a second refrigerator or freezer in your garage, basement, storage space or elsewhere in your home, we’ll come pick it up for free.* You’ll get $35 cash back and we’ll recycle it in an environmentally proper way. The refrigerator or freezer must be empty and working at the time of pickup.

Call 1-866-446-9250 or click in the box below to find out if your zip code qualifies for this service and schedule your free refrigerator pickup.

*JACO Environmental, an appliance recycler, will pick up and recycle refrigerators and freezers that are empty, plugged in and working. This program is available to Georgia Power customers, in approved zip codes, on a first-come, first-served basis. Refrigerators and freezers must be 10-30 cubic feet in size and collection crews will need clear access to the unit. Customers must own the unit(s) being recycled. Limit two units per residential address per year. A check will be issued to the Georgia Power customer and will be mailed approximately 4-6 weeks after the appliance pickup. Contractor reserves the right to leave the appliance if removal may cause damage to the property, is otherwise impractical or is unsafe.

Did you know?
Georgia Power households have approximately 235,000 secondary refrigerators more than 10 years old in their garages, basements, storage spaces or elsewhere in their homes. If every Georgia Power household recycled that second refrigerator, the annual energy savings would be as much as 250 million kWh/year. Many of these secondary refrigerators are not ENERGY STAR^® qualified and typically use 75 percent more energy than newer ENERGY STAR models.

By removing and recycling your old fridge, you can:

Save Money
By recycling your old working fridge or freezer, you'll see up to $100 a year in energy savings, or as much as $1,000 in energy over its remaining life. These numbers are based on manufacturing date prior to 1993.

Save Natural Resources
The average refrigerator 10 years old or older contains about 159 pounds of steel, 75 pounds of plastic and 10 pounds of glass. Recycling ensures proper disposal of these materials and reduces demand in landfill space. For every ton of steel that is properly recycled - roughly the amount in 16 full-size refrigerators - we save 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone in natural resources.

Refrigerator Recycling
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