Campus Greening AssistantTrash/Recycling

1. Resident Hallsa. Urness Hall:

i. Trash rooms on each floorii. Recycling and trash cans in front of the elevators on each floor

iii. Trash in Laundry rooms along with large recycling bins outside the laundry room

b. Mortenson Hall:i. Trash rooms on each floor

ii. Recycling on the main leveliii. Trash in laundry room along with 2 large recycling bins on

lower levelc. Anderson Hall:

i. Trash rooms with 3 compartments:1. Trash2. Cardboard3. Plastic

ii. Trash and recycling bins in each floor lobbyiii. Trash in laundry room

d. Luther Halli. Trash rooms on each floor (I believe this is the case, still need

to fully look at the Luther set up)ii. Trash in each floor laundry room

e. OGC Hall:i. Trash room on each floor

ii. Recycling bin in each trash roomiii. Trash in laundry rooms

f. Outside Halls:i. There are built in trash cans outside each resident hall, along

with an ash compartment for cigarettes.ii. There are also trash cans outside each main door of each

building on campus.iii. Two large trash bins outside Luther/Anderson Halls

iv. Two large trash bins outside Urness/Mortenson Hallsv. One large trash bin outside OGC Hall.

g. All Residence Halls:i. One thing that Residence Life does is offer to students at the

end of the year, a way to recycle electronic waste. They set up a special place for students to bring in electronics that have broken over the course of the school year.

I have noticed that it is never hard to find a trash can on campus. There is always a trash can alongside a recycling can on each floor of each building on campus.

But, I decided to ask what students thought about the many cans and how they feel about how they know what to put in the cans. In Anderson Hall, residents really like the multiple trash chutes in the trash rooms; they only have to go to one place to get rid of trash and recycling. Residence Life also does a great job of informing of what goes in each chute. They have words AND pictures, and that information doesn’t take up a lot of space. Then, residence in Mortenson don’t like how there is only a Trash chute and no recycling bins on each floor.

When I asked students about trash and recycling bins around campus, the majority never really thought about them, but realized that it is nice that you really don’t have to search hard to find either one; they are on every floor of every building. But, students have said, because of some new products, like the Naboo take out boxes, they don’t know what REALLY goes into which bin. So, I think it would be great to take on the way Residence Life informs residence on what goes in what bin, the confusion would slip away.