Recycling On Campus

How to Recycle from On Campus

cardboard

BLUE BINS ACCEPT:

Cans (tin, aluminum, etc.)
Glass bottles and jars
Paper (colored, glossy, office, newspaper)
Paperboard (like cereal boxes)
Plastics Labeled #1 or #2 (NO DeCafe containers)

Make sure everything is free of food waste before recycling it, otherwise it will contaminate the other recyclables and cause all contents of the bin to be thrown out!

BLUE BINS DO NOT ACCEPT:

cardboard

On campus, FLATTEN BOXES and take corrugated cardboard (which has a ribbed filling inside two thin sheets of cardboard) to the cardboard dumpsters behind:

**Note:** Glossy and waxed cardboard boxes cannot be put in cardboard dumpsters. If you have a box like this, and it is in good condition, and doesn't have "Organic" printed on it, just drop it off at any co-op. It will be given back to the farmers who supply our food, who will reuse it.
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batteries

Every year, Americans purchase nearly three billion disposable batteries. Recycling these batteries helps keep heavy metals out of landfills and out of the air, and saves our resources. (EPA, 2007)

To recycle batteries on campus:

There is a container by the Technology Store on A-Level of Mudd where you can recycle all kinds of batteries: alkaline, rechargeable, laptop, cell phone, camera, etc.
Drop rechargeable and non-rechargeable batteries in the containers located in Wilder, Phillips, Hall Annex, and the Facilities Building.
For rechargeable batteries of any type (including cell phone and laptop batteries), you can also bring them to any Staples, Best Buy, or RadioShack, all of which are in Elyria, and they will recycle them.

Check out the More Resources page to find out what else you can recycle!

ALTERNATIVE TO BLUE BINS:

paper

When you have a lot of office paper, take it to the green-and-yellow Paper Retriever bins around campus, located behind Facilities and behind Hales. Paper from these dumpsters is picked up by Abitibi Consolidated, a company that pays us for our recycled paper. These dumpsters will accept all office paper and newspaper, as long as it is less than 6 months old.

Also, look for the blue containers marked "Nothing Personal" near the printers. ONE-SIDED office paper collected there will be turned into notepads and made available to students FREE by the Recyclers. Place paper blank side up.

Oberlin College Resource Conservation Team • 440-775-8996 • recycle@oberlin.edu

This page was last updated May 2010