Recycling on Campus By: Carolyn Cronin Integrative Biology 203

Don’t ya dare litter!  mI mI mI

Champaign Recycling  24-hour dropoff recycling site at 1702 Hagan St (Behind Home Depot)  Curbside pickup  Single-family homes  Apartments with 4 or fewer units

Urbana Recycling  U-Cycle  $2.50 monthly tax to property owners  Weekly curbside service  Includes apartments with < 4 units  Multi-family residences  Sororities/Fraternities  Recycling bins next to dumpsters in large apartment complexes

U-Cycle Accepted Materials  Cans  Milk jugs and detergent bottles  Plastic bottles  Newspaper, office paper, magazines  Cardboard  Glass bottles and jars  Aerosol cans  Softcover books

Students for Environmental Concerns (SECS)  Weekly meetings: Wednesdays at 6:30  YMCA basement   Promotes environmental action on campus  Organized LIVE GREEN week this November

Community Organized Recycling Efforts (CORE)  Weekly meetings: 5:30pm in YMCA basement  Newly formed in past year  Developed a proposal for U of I recycling  Works hand in hand with SECS  Unite U-Cycle program with Champaign

CORE cont.  Goal: SHOW that people want/desire recycling  ChamBANDa - Concert event at the Canopy Club  GrΣΣn-House Competition 2007  Sororities/fraternities compete for most recycled materials

“Everybody’s doing it…”  University of West Virginia  free admission for student volunteers to sporting games  Direct and encourage patrons to use recycle bins  Univ. of Colorado- Boulder  Oldest recycling program  Cell phone recycling

Recycle Mania  201 colleges nationwide  10 week recycling competition   Goal to increase awareness of recycling Programs on campus   Compete In:   Least amount of trash per capita   Most recycled materials per capita

2007 results: Total Pounds Recycled: 41.3 million pounds WINNER: Cal State- San Marcos

University of Illinois Materials Recovery Facility  Fancy way of saying “Recycling Plant”  Created and managed by Tim Hoss  Located on St. Mary’s Rd. near south farms This new facility Opened in 1997

 Campus Recycling Program/Center was born  Now includes:  All academic and administrative buildings  Campus student housing  Dorms  Some apartments  Doesn’t include:  Sorority/fraternity

Who does all the work?  18 employees  5 drivers who pick up and transport campus trash to Facility  2 operating engineers  9 sorters/labor  6 from developmental services  1 student helper  Tim Hoss- man in charge

The Process  Trash and recycle bins hauled to facility  Large bulky objects removed  Conveyer moves trash to be sorted  workers manually sort recyclables and drop into storage bunkers

Process cont.  Remaining trash is compressed and transported by truck to land fills  Recycled materials compressed into bails  Shipped by truck to various recycling mills and sold

Money Money Money….  $1.3 million to manage facility per year  Average $300 thousand made from recyclables  Recycling is expensive!!!!

Is it effective?  1993 State mandate to reduce waste by 40%  U of I achieved this by 1995  48.6% trash reduced through recycling in 2005

What you can do!!  Personal  Join organizations  Political activism  Campus  Community  Recycle Mania