Staples' Recycling Program has become Catlin Gabel's new recycling program! Staples' Recycling Program began in 2012 to collect old technology. The program rapidly expanded to provide consumers with a place to bring old and unused technology, where it could be responsibly recycled through ERI and kept out of landfills. The program rapidly expanded, creating a laundry list of miscellaneous tech items, soon spaning to include items such as coffee brewers and ink cartridges. In recent years, the program expanded to include Pens, markers, and mechanical pencils. EAT joined forces with Staples, placing collection boxes across campus to collect these writing implements in question.

BiC's Stationary Free Recycling Program (now The Writing Instruments Free Recycling Programme) was established in 2011 as a part of its sustainability goals. It would collect writing implements, and recycle them into their new line of 50% recycled products. Unfortunately, a number of setbacks make it fall short of a truly successful program. For one, it has recently become exclusive to the United Kingdom, completely negating its usefulness for CGS. Before this change was implemented, the program still created a huge amount of unnecessary carbon emissions, as boxes of a minimum of 1 lb needed to be sent via mail to Terracycle facilities.

ColorCycle was a program created in 2013 in response to a 2012 petition started by Sun Valley School which received over 90,000 signatures. The petition called for Crayola to take responsibility for its products that would often end up in oceans, landfills, and incinerators. Crayola's program would convert old markers into clean oil, and while it wasn't the cleanest or greenest product, it would at least give common single-use plastics a second life. This program was discontinued in 2020 due to COVID-19, but it was never reinstated. Catlin Gabel used to be an active contributor to this program, but following its closure, the EAT began to look for new and cleaner programs.