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How UST
Recycling Is Done
The key to success in the UST recycling program is our community. Students, faculty,
staff, and guests decide whether or not to recycle. Recycling benefits everyone in our
community with a cleaner environment, a more attractive campus, an economic advantage for
the university, and a brighter future for all.
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The community uses recycling containers to dispose of emptied
beverage and food cans, glass and plastic bottles, office paper, newspaper, magazines,
junk mail, books, boxboard, cardboard, batteries, and other recyclables.
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Office occupants using the small cardboard office paper recyclers
empty them into the corridor recycling containers for office paper.
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The Building Service Workers remove recycling from building
recycling containers and take the recyclables to campus staging areas.
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The student Recycling Team picks up campus recyclables daily from
the staging areas and brings them to the recycling center in the Physical Plant for
sorting.
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Special pick ups are arranged for confidential papers and larger
quantities of recyclables such as cardboard or books. These pick ups may be scheduled
through request
for service under Physical Plant.
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After sorting, some of the recycling is picked up by area
processors. What is not picked up by a processors is hauled by the members of the
Recycling Team to area recyclers.
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UST receives income for much of our
recycling after the deduction of a tipping fee. Any income received
goes into the general fund and helps to offset the cost of a UST
student's education.
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help UST become more of a sustainable university, reduce the cost of
campus waste removal, decrease the rate at which our community landfills are filling up,
recoup the value of recyclables for the general fund, and clean up air, earth, and water
by reducing the added pollution resulting from refinement of virgin materials.
Recycling makes a huge difference! |
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