Corrugated cardboard: includes brown grocery bags, butcher paper and "chip board" i.e. cereal boxes type cardboard. PLEASE! no food contamination, or paper plates or cups.

Dormitories: Every dorm has a container for cardboard on the ground floor near the trash room. Please ask your custodian.
Academic buildings and houses have places for cardboard generally near the outside trash barrels.

Flatten all boxes and stack neatly. Please exclude all extraneous material such as Styrofoam packing, film plastics and food contaminants.

Mixed office paper: includes writing and copy paper, envelopes (glassine windows are no problem), notebooks (spiral and plastic bindings and covers are OK), manila folders, most junk mail (except for that which is primarily glossy paper--see Low grade paper), paper-back books and hard-back books with covers removed. The occasional rubber band, staple or paper clip causes no problem.
Excludes: carbon paper, hygienic paper, "ditto" masters, paper towels, food wrapping, waxed paper. Glossy paper and magazines, newspaper (newsprint), and telephone books should not be placed with mixed office paper, but rather placed in those bins marked "newspaper".

Containers for mixed office paper have been placed on every floor of every building. Some, however, have disappeared. Please ask your custodian, or call us at x3653 if you find that none are conveniently located.

We recommend setting aside a small space or container in which to accumulate recyclable office paper. When full, simply transfer material to appropriately labeled hallway container. Staff can requisition small plastic bins that nest in larger standard issue waste bins so that the proper receptacle is always at hand without any additional clutter. Remember, food waste or other contamination may destroy all recycling value.

Commingled containers: includes beverage and food bottles and cans, may be glass, plastic, aluminum, or steel ("tin"). Also, plastic soap, shampoo, and detergent bottles. All should be empty and substantially free of contaminants.

Containers for commingled materials have been placed on every floor of every building, as well as strategic locations around campus. Outside every building, where the trash barrels are located there should also be a "commingled" barrel. Should you find that none are conveniently located, ask your custodian, or call us at x3653.

All cans and bottles should be empty of their original contents and free of contaminants. Food and soda residues cause odor, insect and rodent problems.

Low grade paper: includes all newspaper, phone books and magazines including Snappers, coupon clippers, catalogues, class schedules, etc. Glossy (clay coated) paper may be included. Low-grade paper currently has a low reprocessing value, but is in demand as animal bedding by farmers.

Every building on campus has at least one repository for low-grade paper. Ask your custodian, or call x3653. Additionally, Ganser, Byerly, and Boyer have outside bins on the loading docks.

Newspapers should not be bundled in plastic grocery bags, although paper grocery bags are OK. Plastic items, which often arrive with junk mail such as CDs, should be excluded.

Scrap metals: includes ferrous and non-ferrous metals including automobile batteries, demolition materials, old appliances (all refrigerant chemicals ("freons") require special treatment), metal furniture, insulated electrical wire.

The scrap area is restricted to certain staff members. Call x3653 for instructions on scrap metal disposal.

As most scrap metal is generated during demolition and disposal operations, we recommend asking your custodian or calling x3653 for instructions on scrap metal disposal.

Batteries: includes automobile batteries, and all types of dry cells (flashlight, watch, power tool batteries, etc.)

Call x3653 for information on car batteries. Every building has a place for dry cell batteries. Ask your custodian or call x3653 for information.

We provide specially labeled orange "baggies" upon request (call x3653) for accumulation of batteries. When full, these can be delivered to your custodian or placed conspicuously with (not in) the trash. We must keep batteries out of the trash to avoid the emission of highly toxic heavy metals as trash is incinerated.

Automotive products: includes used motor oil and antifreeze.

There are facilities at the garage area at Bishop building for automotive wastes, please call x3653 for information.

Ask your custodian or call x3653 for information.

Wood waste: includes generally demolition waste and wood pallets that cannot be returned to the vendor.  It also includes wooden furniture, stage sets, wood shop waste from Osborne and carpenter shops. This wood is delivered to the Lancaster County incinerator to be burned as a high-energy fuel in the cogeneration of electricity.

Wood waste bins are located on the east side of Osborne Hall and behind Bishop Building. Call x3653 for information.

Waste wood should be substantially free of contaminants. Nails, hinges and other attached hardware usually do not cause problems. Call x3653 for information.