Who Makes it Work

Bucknell University Facilities is committed to make recycling work and dedicated to improving the percent of waste that is recycled.

In non-residential facilities, clearly marked recycling containers are placed throughout the buildings in an effort to make disposal of recyclable material convenient for all personnel. Facility custodians collect the recyclable materials and place them in the nearest campus recycling bins.

In Bucknell residential buildings, recycling was declared mandatory by the students in Fall 2006.  To ensure everyone enthusiastically recycles, Facilities has placed containers for recycling in every hall/house.  Each resident is expected to take recyclables from their rooms to the hall containers.  A rotation is set up by the hall and every week a different resident transports recyclables from their full hall containers to the outside collection sheds.   Several work study students monitor the program and work with students and Residential Life to educate, encourage and if necessary enforce recycling practices.

The Facilities Grounds and Labor shop performs all the hauling and sorting of collected waste from the brown, outside sheds.  Waste is sorted into large bins. Bins are taken to brokers who in turn use or sell materials.

It only works as good as those disposing materials hitting the right container. Many times personnel don’t have time to separate garbage from recyclables. Co-mingling renders the entire container as solid waste. Unrecyclable. A real waste!

For one-time, very large recycling pick-ups such as cardboard boxes after a move in or office record purge call 7-1911. Facilities will coordinate the details of the waste collection.

If you have any comments or ideas to improve convenience of recycling please contact Facilities at 7-1911.