What is RecycleMania?
The annual 8-week competition challenges colleges and universities across the United States and Canada to collect the most recyclable materials.
Recycle ALL paper, cardboard, bottles, cans, and all other Single Stream recyclables!
Recycle EVERYWHERE ON CAMPUS and the volume will get added to our school’s total.
Learn more about what you can recycle on campus.
National RecycleMania website.
Email your residence hall’s EcoRep RecycleMania questions.
The main goal of this event is to increase student awareness of campus recycling and waste minimization. All participating schools are required to report measurements on a weekly basis in pounds. RecycleMania provides many ways to gain recognition, including RecycleMania trophies, awards, and participant certificates.
In the end, RecycleMania helps all participating colleges and universities make achievements in recycling and waste reduction!
Help Drew University win the RecycleMania Trophy!
Tips to Reduce Waste
- Purchase bulk products & reduce packaging (get the big bag of pretzels instead of the “snack sized” bags)
- Grab your reusable water bottle
- Print double-sided pages
- Proofread your report on the computer screen before printing it out
- Report wasteful practices to sustainability@drew.edu
- Reduce your printer margins to half an inch versus default 1″ margins. Learn how
Trash 2 Treasure is a collection drive during Move-Out benefiting
Big Brothers Big Sisters.
May 2nd – May 15th
Moving out of your residence hall ? Donate previously loved items to our local charities.
Drop off gently used clothing, bedding, towels in the metal collection bins located outside the following locations:
- Hoyt Hall
- Riker Hall
- the Suites
- Tolley-Brown Hall
- Welch Hall
- Tipple Hall
For a full list of acceptable items, visit: njpickup.org
Sponsored by:
Drew Eco-Reps and the Office of Residence Life and Housing
What is Big Brothers Big Sisters? With the mission to provide children facing adversity with strong, professionally supported one-to-one relationship, Big Brothers and Big Sisters has been providing mentoring services to children for more than fifty years. As the nation’s largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters develops meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers and children in communities across the county. Developed with the vision to allow all children to achieve success, Big Brothers Big Sisters forms positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of children. National research has shown that positive relationships between Littles and their Bigs have a direct and measurable impact on children’s lives.
Students
Each residence hall is equipped with a trash and recycling container. Each individual is then responsible for emptying these containers of separated trash and recyclables into the larger hall containers. From there the custodial staff empties these larger containers, keeping them in separate bags, and preparing them for pick up from Drew’s recycling and trash hauler.
Offices, Administrative, and Faculty
Offices are moving towards Centralized Recycling Areas that provide a set of two large containers, trash and recycling, for each of office area instead of individual desks. Few offices still have the individualized “bucket buddy” system. This is a smaller bucket that is attached to the larger receptacle. To properly use the “bucket buddy”, place all paper in the lager section, and all general waste (like a banana peel left over from lunch) in the smaller side attachment.
Facilities and Custodial Staff
After all trash and recyclable materials are placed in the proper containers; the custodial staff takes over. The custodial staff empties all of the containers. Single stream recycling is put into blue bags and trash is put into clear bags. The bags are then placed in toters outside the buildings ready for transport to the Campus Recycling Center. Once at the recycling center, blue bags of recycling are put in recycling dumpsters and clear bags are put in trash dumpsters. Once full, the large dumpsters are picked up by a waste management company and brought to a transfer station. At the transfer station, material is checked to make sure it is free of contamination. From there, the material goes to the recycling facility to be recycled.
As part of our continuing effort to revise and improve the Drew recycling program, we are interested in what you think. Any ideas or suggestions concerning the recycling program can be addressed by contacting Facilities at ext. 3510.
Q: I see the recycling and the trash picked up by the same truck, so why should I separate if it all ends up going to the same place anyway?
A: The same truck picks up both trash and recycling, but it does not go to the same place. Once the truck picks up all of the trash and recycling, it is brought to the Campus Recycling Center, were the bags are sorted and put in to the proper receptacles.
Q: Why does Facilities use clear trash bags?
A: Clear bags allow the Facilities staff to accurately and quickly identify the contents of the bag. This is invaluable in our efforts to keep the recyclable materials separated from the trash.
Q: What happens if general waste accidentally gets mixed in with recyclable material?
A: When trash is mixed with the recyclable materials it is considered contaminated and will not be recycled. This emphasizes the importance of the initial separation in the dormitories and the offices by the Drew Community
Q: Whom do I contact if I need a recycling container or mine has been damaged?
A: If you do not have a recycling container or need a new one because your has been damaged in some way, call x3510. The Service Response Center will be happy to help you out.
Q: Whom do I contact if I have questions, comments, or suggestions about the recycling program?
A: If you have any great ideas about how to improve the recycling program or have questions about the current program, please call x3510.
