Recycling

Recycling at Mount Saint John is a strongly encouraged practice. Each entity on campus should provide their own recycling trash cans and should empty their recycling into one of two recycling dumpsters on campus. Current policy is per Rumpke and is subject to change.

Recycling Dumpsters

There are two recycling dumpsters on campus where recyclable material should be placed. The first is near the loading dock of the Marianist Mission, and the second is near the garage doors of the Bergamo Center. When placing recyclable materials into the dumpsters, the following special rules apply:

  1. All cardboard boxes must first be broken down.

  2. No plastic bags can be recycled. This means no trash can liners are to be used to collect recyclables. If liners are used, the contents of the liners must be emptied into the recycling dumpster, and then the plastic liners thrown in the trash.

Acceptable Items for Recycling

  1. Glass bottles and jars (all colors)

  2. Metal cans (i.e., aluminum cans, steel cans and lids, empty aerosol cans with the lids and tips removed)

  3. Plastic bottles - emptied, rinsed, crushed, lid reattached (i.e., bottles and jugs that have a small mouth and wider base, such as milk jugs, soda bottles, laundry detergent bottles, shampoo bottles, and contact solution bottles)

  4. Paper (i.e., newspaper, magazines, cardboard, mixed office paper and envelopes, paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes), pizza boxes free of food debris and grease, telephone books, and catalogs)

  5. Cartons (i.e., food and beverage cartons such as milk, juice, soup, wine, broth, and other cartons)

Recycling Tips

  1. All items can be mixed together. No separation is required.

  2. All bottles, jugs, and cans should be emptied and rinsed.

  3. Labels do not need removed.

  4. Plastic bottles should be emptied, rinsed, and crushed with the lid reattached.

  5. Plastic caps and straws should be removed from cartons.

  6. Medical sharps or needles should never be placed in the recycling.

  7. Plastic bags should not be placed in recycling.

Not for Recycling

Plastic bags, cassette tapes, bed sheets, hangers, metal chains, garden hoses, batteries, needles, syringes, electronics, polystyrene foam, buckets, butter tubs, car parts, food, yard waste, light bulbs, drinking glasses, ceramics, pots, pans, and scrap metal