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Resource Recovery

Procedures for Residence Halls

MIXED PAPER includes:
  • Books
  • Container board
  • Card stock
  • Paper based envelopes (labels and windows OK)
  • Magazines
  • Paper (white, colored, ledger, shiny/coated, NCR, onionskin
  • Computer printouts
  • File folders (manila, Pendaflex)
  • Tablets (include backs)
  • Keypunch cards, index cards
  • Telephone books
  • Newspapers
  • Post-it notes
  • Clean paper plates
  • Paper bags
  • Intercampus envelopes
  • Napkins

No need to remove tape, rubber bands, staples, spirals from notebooks, labels, paper clips, etc.

PLACE in chute for PAPER. PLEASE NO FOOD OR RESTROOM WASTE.

CORRUGATED CARDBOARD/CONTAINER BOARD includes:
  • Corrugated boxes
  • Paperboard boxes
  • Pizza boxes
  • Beverage containers

FLATTEN all boxes and containers. REMOVE food and sauce containers, etc. from pizza boxes. TAKE flattened boxes to the laundry room.

GLASS includes:
  • Clear containers
  • Amber containers
  • Green containers

Must be transparent and translucent; please no opaque containers.

Rinse. Remove rings and covers. Labels need not be removed. Place in chute for glass.

No ceramics, window glass, Pyrex glass, dishes or mirrors.

Fluorescent tubes are considered hazardous waste and require special handling. Take spent tubes to the front desk.

CANS and METALS include:
  • Aluminum cans
  • Metal cans
  • Aerosol cans
  • Paint cans
  • Hangers
  • Cooking utensils

DRAIN aluminum cans. RINSE metal cans. REMOVE plastic covers (if removable) from aerosol cans. DO NOT remove spray nozzle. BRUSH all residual paint from paint cans and let cans air dry. Paint cans do not need to be rinsed but they cannot contain more than the residual paint after thorough brush cleaning. REPLACE paint can covers. PLACE in chute for CANS.

PLASTICS include:
  • Plastics No. 1 and 2
  • Examples are bottles, tubs, and pails

REMOVE metal and plastic rings and covers from bottles, tubs and pails. Labels need not be removed. RINSE. PLACE in chute for PLASTIC.

#6 PLASTIC - PACKAGING MATERIALS (POLYSTYRENE) includes:
  • Filler packing (saucers and peanuts) material
  • Formed, rigid packing material

BAG OR BOX filler packing material. Formed packing material may be left in boxes. TAKE to the laundry room.

Plastic bags are not included in this category and are non recyclable.

TONER CARTRIDGES includes cartridges from:
  • Printers
  • Photocopy machines
  • FAX machines

RETAIN original packaging to store spent cartridges. SEND to Central Stores (Maintenance/Materiel Building) via campus mail in the original packaging if available.

INK JET CARTRIDGES

PLACE in the box provided at the front desk in original packaging if available.

TRANSPARENCIES include:
  • Transparencies
  • 3M Flip-Frame Transparency Protectors
  • 3M Flip-Frame Transparency Protectors with Pre-View
  • 3M Transparency Sleeves

SEND to the Resource Recovery Center Office, 112 Maintenance/Materiel Building via campus mail.

ELECTRONIC MEDIA includes:
  • Microfiche
  • Video
  • Audio tapes
  • CDs
  • Floppy disks

SEND to the Resource Recovery Center Office, 112 Maintenance/Materiel Building via campus mail.

BATTERIES from:
  • Pagers
  • Flashlights
  • Radios
  • Miscellaneous other

SEND to the Resource Recovery Center Office, 112 Maintenance/Materiel Building via campus mail.

GOODWILL

A goodwill roundup is held at the end of each semester to assist residence hall students with disposing of unwanted items.

Items include:

  • Reusable clothing
  • Linens
  • Bedding
  • Books / magazines
  • Games
  • Toys
  • Sporting equipment
  • Small (working) appliances
  • Paper tablets
  • Food in sealed containers

TAKE items to the front lobby during the drive period. PLACE in gray cart labeled "Good Will."

Only during spring move-out, students may drop off furniture in good condition, lofts, wood, bicycles, televisions, computers, microwaves, and refrigerators that are in working condition at Surplus Sales. Surplus Sales is located at 601 Division Street. Materials may be dropped off at the dock facing Isadore Street.

Tents

Large tents are set up during Spring move-out. 

Furniture (in good condition), lofts, lumber and wood, bicycles, bed and futon frames, televisions, stereos, microwaves and refrigerators that are in usable condition can be brought to one of the four collection tents.

WATCH for announcements as the end of the semester draws near.