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What Can I Recycle in the
Residence Halls?
Aluminum & Tin- Aluminum cans, food cans & lids, aluminum
foil
Glass- Clear, Brown, and Green
Plastic Bottles- #1 (PETE) and #2 (HDPE)
Thank you for rinsing your food & beverage containers!!
Mixed Paper
YES! white paper, colored paper, magazines, newspaper, brown paper bags,
paperback books, junk mail, phonebooks
NO! carbon paper, milk cartons, paper plates, napkins, cups, or anything
contaminated with food
You can get collection bags for your room from the recycling locations
or use your own brown paper bag.
Cardboard- Please flatten boxes and take out all packaging.
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Where Can I Recycle in the
Residence Halls?
Recycling Bins are in the following locations:
- Units 1, 2 & 3: Mixed paper: Recycling chutes can be
found next to the elevators. They will be operational beginning
August 28th. Food & Beverage Containers: rinse and place in bins
underneath bathroom sinks.
- Beverly Cleary: Recycling rooms on each floor across from
the trash room.
- Clark Kerr Campus: Buildings 2, 3, 8, 12 & in shed by
19.
- Foothill: Buildings 2 & 7.
- Bowles: Ground floor recycling area.
- Stern: 1st floor laundry room.
- Manville: Ground floor trash room.
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Where Can I Recycle on
Campus?
- Silver public recycling bins for beverage containers and newspaper
are located outside throughout campus.
- Large blue recycling bins or big metal dumpsters labeled
"mixed paper only" are located near most buildings'
garbage areas.
- Inside buildings, mixed paper and white paper recycling is
available in virtually all office settings. Beverage container
recycling is available in some office areas.
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End-of-the-Semester Clean-Outs
Keep an eye out for special recycling and reuse programs that will start
the week before finals.
- Used reader/notebook collection drive- Designated recycling bins
will be placed to collect your old readers & notebooks. Used
pages from notebooks will be ripped out for recycling and notebooks
with remaining paper will be offered to others for reuse. Readers
will be catalogued and given away at the beginning of the next
semester.
- Reusables Drive- Drop-off areas in each residence hall will
collect clean clothing, clean towels, linens, pots, pans, dishes,
kitchenware, glassware, working TVs, radios, working computers, and
working small appliances.
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Other Ways You Can Reduce,
Reuse, and Recycle
Other ways to recycle or reuse materials or reduce your waste
include:
- Donate reusable items that you don't want to Goodwill
(1-888-4-GOODWILL), the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse (6907 San
Pablo, 547-6470), or other similar groups.
- Use the back of paper for scratch paper before recycling it.
- Carry a reusable mug (many cafes give you a discount if you ask
for it).
- Take only the food you will eat and only one napkin at mealtimes.
- Reduce your junk mail- To remove your name from most mailing
lists, write with a 'request to be deleted': Direct Marketing
Association, Mail Preference Service, P.O.Box 9008, Farmington, NY
11735-9008. For additional information, look for the Junk Mail
Reduction Action Guide in your mailroom or at http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~source
- Get involved with S.O.U.R.C.E. (Students Organized for Using
Resources Conscientiously and Efficiently), e-mail: source@ocf.berkeley.edu
- Bring your own bags or don't take a bag when you are shopping.
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The Importance of Buying
Recycled
When we use recycled materials instead of virgin products, we save
resources, energy and water, as well as reducing air pollution and the
need for disposal. Buying recycled is the essential link in
closing-the-loop of recycling. Purchasing these products establishes and
stimulates the markets for recycled materials. The most vital component
in successful recycling is a secure, long term market for the materials
we want to recycle. If you are not buying recycled, you aren't really
recycling.
Click here to read more.
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