Students

All dorms and major buildings on campus have recycling bins.  Use the little blue bins in your dorm room! If you do not have a blue bin contact Patrick O'Hara. With 122+ locations for recycling pick-up on campus, recycling is easier than ever at Notre Dame!

Notre Dame has gone single stream! No more tedious hours spent sorting and cleaning your recylables.

All the following items can be placed into the same recycle container.

PAPER
Do not bundle or bag any papers. Place all paper loose into the container. Acceptable paper includes:

• Newspaper
• Phone Books
• Magazines
• Newspaper inserts
• File Folders
• Paper Back Books
• Notebook Paper
• Office Paper
• Junk Mail & Envelopes
• Catalogs
• Copy/Computer Paper
• Boxboard (Cereal, cake, soda or cookie boxes)
• NO WAX COATED, FOIL COVERED or PLASTIC LINED PAPERS

PLASTICS
Household plastic containers marked #1 through #5. Rinse the container clean. Labels do not need to be removed.

• NO MOTOR OIL BOTTLES

ALUMINUM
Cans, Aluminum Foil and Aluminum Pie Tins.

GLASS CONTAINERS Ð CLEAR/GREEN/BROWN
Household food and beverage containers. Labels do not need to be removed. Rinse out all containers.

• NO CERAMICS, DISHES, DRINKING

TIN OR BI-METAL CONTAINERS
Food containers (steel and tin) and empty aerosol cans.

CARDBOARD
Please breakdown all cardboard boxes and place next to recycling container.

For any further information, download the official flyer, or contact the Building Services Warehouse at 631-6383

Recycling Off Campus

CALL TO BEGIN SERVICE: 299-0500

BASIC INFORMATION:

In the past year, St. Joseph County passed an ordinance to make curbside recycling programs mandatory. The St. Joseph County Solid Waste Management District contracted Superior Waste Systems, Inc. to operate the program, and as a result, all off-campus housing has the opportunity to recycle. Every landowner is charged the minimal fee of less than $3.00 per month regardless of whether they recycle or not. As a result, tenants simply have to check with their landlords before contacting the recycling center and signing up for service.

The recycling trucks pick up recyclable materials every other week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday. Upon request for a recycling bin, the household will receive a schedule of the pick-up dates. There is only one separation of the materials that must be made by the household. Paper goods must be separated from the plastic, glass, aluminum, and steel products. This separation maximizes the collection efficiency. When the materials are collected, they are taken to the South Bend Waste Paper facility on Franklin St. and Indiana Ave. in South Bend. The products are eventually sorted and then shipped to Resource Management, Inc. in Naperville, IL, where they are put up for sale to manufacturers on the open market.

Household hazardous wastes, such as engine oil, paints and solvents, pesticides, poisons, tires, aerosols, batteries, medications, bleaches, and other miscellaneous fluids can be recycled at the Solid Waste District. This is located on 1105 East 5th Street in Mishawaka.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

In order to sign up for curb-side recycling service, contact Waste Management at 299-0500. For billing questions, call 235-9971 or go to www.swmd.org. After giving them your address, you will receive an information packet in the mail about what you can and can not recycle using this service. You should also receive a recycling bin. However, you can still recycle using your own container if you do not receive a bin.

To get information on how to recycle household hazardous wastes, call 235-9971 or e-mail jerry@swmd.org.