Recycling

Good reasons to recycle
Room Recycling Bags
Residential Recycling Centers
Big Red Recycling Trailer Schedule
Faculty and Staff workspace recycling
What can I recycle?
What else can I do?
Did you know?

Central Recycles!

Central College is committed to recycling and expects all faculty, staff and student residents to transport and properly sort their recyclables into the designated recycling centers in the buildings.  

Good reasons for recycling:

• Conserve Natural Resources: Recycling saves natural resources such as trees and land and reduces the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.

• Saves Landfill Space: When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don’t go into landfills which conserves for future generations.
  
  
• Saves Energy: The energy associated with producing recycled content products is much less than what’s involved with producing products from mined or forest-harvested materials.
  
  
• Saves Clean Air and Water: In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.

* Source: Catawba College

Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
Reduce, Re-use and Recycle, or the three R’s, are the three pillars of recycling philosophy. Thinking of the three R’s can help reduce your shopping bill and your impact on the environment!

• First, you can take measures to reduce the amount of waste you create in the first place.
• Second, you should re-use as much as you can.
• Third, when you have finished with things, recycle them so they can be re-made in another form, or used by someone else.

Room Recycling Bags:
Use your Central College recycling bag to collect recyclable materials in your residence hall or house room.  The recycle bags will be located on hooks between the suite rooms in Scholte, and either on the back of your room door or on the wall near the room door in all other halls and houses.   When your recycling bag is full, carry it to one of the convenient recycling centers or the Big Red Recycling Trailer.  When everyone at Central takes responsibility for their own recycling, we:

• share responsibility and concern for living a more environmentally responsible lifestyle;
• alleviate some of the burden placed on the custodial and residence hall staff;
• increase awareness for our own waste and excessive use of materials.

Big Red Recycling Trailer:
Residents living in houses in the Collegiate Center will use the Big Red Recycling Trailer as their recycling center.  The trailer will be parked near Peale except when it is in use for special events such as Saturday football games!

 Residential Recycling Centers:
There are new recycling areas built in or near almost all residential areas of campus.  Residents should take recyclable materials to the closest location.  All centers are equipped with four containers to sort your recyclables into: Paper, Plastic, Metal & Glass, and Cardboard. 

Faculty and Staff Office / Workspace Recycling

Removal of recyclables from offices and work spaces, will be the responsiibilty of the individual staff or faculty. To accommodate this, new recycle centers have been created and existing recycle centers have been identified across campus. Please see the facility listing below for the recycling center most convenient for you....

Baron - blue recycle tub in kitchen.

Central Market - metal recycle bins located in serving area between bakery and pdr. Big blue recycle bin on back dock.

Central Hall -
1st floor- recycle boxes outside of the restrooms in the Admissions/Advancement area
2nd floor - recycle boxes in southeast stairway
3rd floor - hallway

Chapel – cardboard recycle set in lower chapel along west wall

Douwstra, Lower level - recycle closet at the bottom of the southwest stairway.

Facilities Planning and Management -cardboard recycle bins in hall next to mailboxes.

Graham – recycle room by South entry

Groenendyke House/College Relations - Beside the copy machine and in the kitchen area under the paper cutter.

Hoffman – recycle center outside East entrance

Jordan - cardboard style on 2nd and 3rd floors.

Kruidenier - cardboard set in hallway off main entry.  Cardboard set in hallway south of kitchen.

Kuyper Athletic Complex –
1st floor - cardboard recycle set under center stairway
2nd floor - recycle center in mechanical room

Lubbers - cardboard recycle bins located by staircase east entrance.

LRC (Learning Resource Center) –
Plaza - metal recycle set
2nd floor South side - recycle can by south windows and a bin by the printer
2nd floor North side - bin by Education deptartment office manager's office, close to classrooms and a bin by hallway to restrooms    
3rd floor, recycle can by the printer

Maytag –
1st floor - recycle room on North side of building by the post office
2nd floor - cardboard recycle set in North center commons area

Music building - cardboard recycle bins located in lobby area by east entrance.

Pietenpol Hall - card board recycle bins located in lounge area and big blue bin located by east door.  There is also a recycle area outside east door.

VSC - In garage, tubs for the various items.  
1st floor East and North lounge - metal sets.
2nd floor lounge - metal set.  

Weller -
1st floor East and West entries - cardboard recycle set
2nd floor - metal recycle set in SW corner by vending machines

What can be recycled?

Recyclable materials include:

Paper
Includes all paper:  white, printed, colored, file folders, newspaper, magazines and catalogs
There is no need to place paper or newspaper in bags or tied bundles with string
Paper should not be wet.
Staples do not need removed

Plastic
All plastics, recycling codes 1 – 7
Containers should be rinsed and empty
No lids or caps
No Plastic bags, plastic wrap, and Styrofoam
Removal of paper labels is not required
Plastic shopping bags are not recyclable

Metals and Glass (of all colors)
No caps or broken glass
Containers should be rinsed and emptied
Removal of paper labels is not required

Cardboard
Any box or container that looks to be made of gray or brown material when torn is recyclable
Corrugated cardboard boxes are recyclable
Please break down your boxes

PLEASE NOTE:
Pizza boxes are considered trash and not recyclable
No aerosol cans or containers

Televisions & computer monitors:  Please do not put in the dumpster!  Please call your Hall Director & he/she will give instructions.

What else can I do?

• Donate your plastic grocery bags to the Pella Food Shelf.  Drop them off at the Student Life Office.
• Replace your traditional light bulbs with eco-friendly compact fluorescents.
• Don’t waste food or napkins in Central Market.
• When shopping, avoid items with excess packaging.  
• Take a shopping bag to the supermarket instead of using the paper or plastic bags.
• Using airtight containers for packing snacks and storing leftovers.
• Stop junk mail.
• Set your printer to print back and front.
• Print 2 pages per sheet if you are able to do so.
• Use both sides of a piece of paper.
• Use rechargeable batteries.
• Repair items wherever possible instead of buying new.
• Save glass or plastic containers and reuse them for storing other things.
• Stockpile any bubble wrap as it can be handy for protecting breakables in transit.
• Reuse envelopes by covering over the address. 
• Consider who can make use of items you no longer want.  Old electrical goods, furniture, books, clothes and shoes may be suitable for family members, friends, or charity.
• Save items for the donation project sponsored by Residence Life at the end of each semester.
• Make every day “Earth Day”!

Did You Know?
* Source: Marist College

Waste

• The average Americans throws away 10 times their own weight in garbage every year.
• Americans throw away enough writing and office paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high, stretching from New York City to Los Angeles.

Recycling

• Recycling is more popular than democracy. A survey showed that more people recycled than voted during the 1996 presidential election.
• One ton of paper from recycled pulp saves 17 trees, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 7,999 gallons of water, 4.200 kilowatt hours (enough to heat your home for half a year), 390 gallons of oil, and prevents 60 pounds of air pollutants.
• Producing a soda can from aluminum uses 95% less energy than manufacturing a can from ore and produces 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution.
• Recycling just one aluminum can save enough energy to power a television for three hours
• By recycling one ton of glass, we save the equivalent of nine gallons of fuel

Global Warming

• The 14 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1980. (1998 was the warmest year ever measured globally)
• Almost half of the greenhouse gases emitted from the average home come from driving our family vehicles. One very easy way to lessen the impact is not to use your vehicle to drive to locations within easy walking distance. 
• Don’t let your vehicle idle. If you are going to be stopped for more than 10 seconds, turn off your engine, except in traffic. Idling your vehicle for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel than it would take to restart your engine. On cold mornings, excessive idling is not necessary as a vehicle engine only requires 20 seconds of running time in order to circulate the engine oil. So remember, turning off your engine saves gas AND the environment!

Forests/Trees

• Every year, Americans drink more than 100 billion cups of coffee. Of those, 14.4 billion are served in disposable paper cups, enough to wrap the earth 55 times if placed end-to-end! Those paper cups contain a plastic lining made from a petrochemical that would produce enough energy to heat 8,300 homes.  

While you were out you might have missed knowing that:

• 140 billion gallons of gasoline a year are consumed by Americans according to the US Energy Department (2006).
• Americans are expected to use 161 billion gallons of gasoline by the year 2017 without any changes to our existing energy policy.
• Americans could reduce by 90% the amount of vehicle emissions by using ethanol from plant cellulose - the material in cornstalks, grass and trees.
• If the United States altered its energy policies by producing 35 billion gallons of alternative fuels a year, the growth of greenhouses gases from vehicles could be stopped by the year 2017 according to the Bush administration.
• In order to produce 35 billion gallons of alternative fuel, the United States would have to increase its amount of corn based ethanol seven (7) times its production level of 2006.