Facilities Management

• envelopes (no windows)
• scrap paper
• old posters
• file folders
• old notes
• sticky notes
• all colors of paper
• bagged shredded paper

• big boxes (large shipments, large items)
• small boxes (granola bars, cereal, etc)
• NO PIZZA BOXES
• NO WAX-COATED CARDBOARD (orange juice or soy milk containers)

• plastic bottles and jugs (milk jug, detergent jug, shampoo bottle, water bottle, etc)
• aluminum and tin
• glass (no green)

Examples: aluminum foil [free of food remnants], aluminum lids and caps, aerosol container, aluminum and tin cans.
For Disposal:

• Staff: Call ex. 2000 to get a aluminum / plastic / glass container in your office area.
• Students: Containers to dispose of aluminum/plastic/glass are located in the hallways of all classroom buildings and in kitchenettes of residence halls

• Students:
  • On campus - Batteries are collected in the miscellaneous recycle container at your front desk
  • Off campus - There is a battery collection bin located at the information desk in the UC
• Staff:
  • Once you have accumulated a full box, call the recycling coordinators (989) 774-2000.

Book recycling if offered year round. In order to be considered a book by recycling the material of the book must be bound; however both hard and soft cover books are accepted. Toss soft cover books in the section of the recycle tank labeled 'Newspaper and Magazines'. Call ex. 2000 or email recycle@cmich.edu if you have hard cover books to recycle.

Recycling is available for most varieties of toner cartridges. Wrap the toner cartridge in a plastic bag so that the ink won't leak.

• Staff: collect several cartridges before you contact recycling.
  
• Students: on campus residents can drop cartridges off at their front desk.

Contact Recycling at (989) 774-2000 for more information.

Metal Recyclables are to be recycled at the Combined Services Building or at Grounds South.  Please refer to the CMU Campus Map for the locations of these buildings.

What types of Styrofoam are accepted?

• Foam cups and containers
• Foam egg cartons
• Packing foam (from bulk items like computers)
• Rinsed, non-perforated meat trays
• Foam food / lunch trays
• NO PACKAGING PEANUTS

How to prepare the foam?

• Rinse off food remnants
• Bag it in a clear, plastic bag

Where to recycle?

• DO NOT PUT IT IN WITH OTHER RECYCLABLES OR PUT IT IN THE BLUE TANKS OUTSIDE. Styrofoam needs to be kept separate from everything else.
• Staff or department?
  • Once you have collected a whole bag of foam, call ex. 2000 and the recycle team will pick it up.
• Student?
  • On campus residents: put your Styrofoam in the rack and roll found in your first floor kitchenette.
  • Off campus residents: you will have to take the Styrofoam to the recycle center separately. The recycle center is located at 4208 E. River Road.

Burnt out fluorescent bulbs are stored at 2 locations on campus, the Park Library and the SAC, and are picked up every few months by a company called Reliable Relamping. Please call extension 2000 or email recycle@cmich.edu if you have lamps to recycle and we will take them to the appropriate storage location.

Have something you think might be hazardous waste? Click here to learn more about hazardous waste recycling at CMU and to submit a request for a hazardous waste pick-up!