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- Convert to a single-stream recycling program to cut costs, increase recycling rates, and keep the streets cleaner!
- Remodel the University's recycling website to be more user friendly.
- Keep a page in the University's sustainability guide to keep students up to date on current recycling news concerning annual or monthly rates, as well as University's goals and expectations.
- Share a campus-wide sustainability newsletter email.
- Distribute instructional materials on University recycling.
Recommendations Previously Offered & Implemented
Building Recycling Rates
On the University’s waste management website is a file containing the recycling rates of all the buildings on campus. For the majority of the buildings, recycling rates have increased from 2011 to 2012!
The average building recycling rate of those measured was 42.0%
- In 2012, Angell, Haven, Mason, and Tisch Hall combined recycled 30.8% of their waste: this is a 4.6% increase from 2011.
- In 2012, the Dana Building and Randall Lab combined recycled 54.1% of their waste: this is a 2.6% increase from 2011
- In 2012, the Chemistry Building recycled 48.3% of its waste: this is a 6.7% increase from 2011.
- In 2012, Dennison and CC Little combined recycled 21.8% of their waste: this is a .9% increase from 2011
- In 2012, East Hall recycled 34.0% of its waste: this is a 2.9% increase from 2011
- In 2012, Hill Auditorium, the Modern Languages Building, and the Burton Memorial Tower combined recycled 36.5% of their waste: this is a 7.8% increase from 2011.
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