Recycling

• Westminster sends over 750,000 pounds of garbage to the landfill every year
• About 50% of items thrown away as trash could be recycled instead
• In their lifetime, an average American will throw away 600 times their own body weight, which results in approximately 90,000 pounds of trash

Better recycling by students, faculty, and staff will dramatically reduce the amount we send to the landfill.

Reduce

• Choose reusable dishes and silverware in Shaw
• Buy products with minimal packaging

Reuse

• Paper printed on only one side as scrap paper (pick up a scrap pad in Walker I)
• Old clothing as cleaning cloths instead of buying paper towels

Recycle

• All plastics, paper, and aluminum in blue bins on campus
• Glass at Shaw

Remember, recycling is the last step in reduce, reuse, recycle. Find ways to reduce and reuse before you recycle.

Request a Recycling Bin

Do your part to reduce our waste.

Request a Small Recycling Bin

Small recycling bins are available for residence hall rooms and offices on campus. It is your responsibility to empty these bins into one of the larger collection bins in your building. Individual bins will not be collected by Westminster custodial services. Residence hall bins should be left in your room at the end of the year. Faculty and staff may keep their bins as long as needed.

What Can I Recycle on Campus?

Recycling on campus is co-mingled, meaning everything goes into one bin—no need to sort!

Glass can be recycled at the South entrance of Shaw. Batteries and cell phones can be recycled at the recycling center the north entrance of Shaw.

Larger electronic recycling collection is on Earth Day, April 22nd.

Campus Recycling Locations

Westminster College provides recycling collection bins in every building on campus.