Recycling and Waste Reduction

What can I recycle?

Where can I recycle on campus?

How do I request a bin for my room or office?

Where can I recycle unusual items like batteries, fluorescent light tubes, CFLs, and pharmaceuticals?

 Did you know that:

• Westminster produces over 750,000 pounds of garbage every year? 
• 75% of items thrown away in a trash can could be recycled instead?
• In their lifetime, an American will throw away 600 times their own body weight, which results in approximately 90,000 pounds of trash?

Better recycling by students, faculty, and staff will DRAMATICALLY reduce the amount we send to the landfill.  Have a question?  Email the Environmental Center at environmentalcenter@westminstercollege.edu.

- choose reusable dishes and silverware in Shaw

- buy products with minimal packaging

- paper printed on only one side as scrap paper (pick a scrap pad in Walker I)

- old clothing as cleaning cloths instead of buying paper towels

- all PLASTICS, PAPER, and METALS

  in BLUE BINS on campus

- GLASS at one of these drop-off locations: http://www.recycle.slco.org/items/glass.html

Remember, recycling is the LAST step in REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.  Find ways to reduce and reuse as you recycle.