Applying the Three Rs on the Mount Holyoke Campus

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Applying the Three Rs on the Mount Holyoke
Campus

• Brought to you by
• ? Your Friendly Eco-Reps ?

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TO REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!
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REDUCE
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REDUCE Paper Waste

• Every year more than 900 million trees are cut
  down to provide raw materials for American paper
  and pulp mills
• Please print paper double sided and eliminate
  unnecessary printings.

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How to Print Double-Sided!

• All library printers are equipped to print
  double-sided!
• Click Print
• Select Properties
• Select Layout
• Under Print on both sides, select Flip on long
  side or Flip on short side.
• When in doubt, ask for assistance!

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REDUCE Food Waste

• Every year, approximately 38 million worth of
  food is thrown away while over 9 million
• people die worldwide because of hunger and
  malnutrition.
• Please take only what you can eat and compost
  food scraps.

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REUSE
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REUSE Your Mug

• Of the 172 lbs of trash EAC sorted
  this past February, 10 of it was To-Go
  containers!
• Please use your mug at both
  Raos and Uncommon Grounds.

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REUSE One-sided Papers

• If every Mount Holyoke student used one less
  sheet of paper everyday, it would save 38 trees
  worth of paper!!!
• Please save your one-sided paper as scrap paper.

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REUSE Your Brown Bag

• Nearly 2,150 students take Grab and Go Lunch at
  Torrey and Kendade Atrium every week.
• Please reuse your brown bag that you receive at
  Kendade and Torrey Take Out! If it is too worn
  to reuse, please recycle that bag in the mixed
  paper.

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REUSE Wide-Mouth Water Bottles

• Buying your water in a bottle is not necessarily
  beneficial for you.
• Some bottled water is more contaminated than tap
  water.
• Many harmful chemicals are used in the production
  of plastic bottles.
• Sometimes more water is actually used in the
  production of the bottle than the amount that can
  be held within the bottle.
• You can refill your Wide-Mouth Water Bottles at
  all Dining Halls.

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RECYCLE
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What to RECYCLE in Bottles Cans Bin

• Plastic Bottles (all types)
• Glass bottles (all colors)
• Aluminum Cans
• Yogurt Cups
• Juice and Soymilk boxes
• Tin Cans

ALL ABOVE RECYCLABLES CAN BE PLACED IN THE RED
BINS LABELED BOTTLES AND CANS!!!
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RECYCLE Mixed Paper

• White and colored office paper
• Magazines and Newspapers
• Envelopes (with and without windows)
• Brown paper bags
• Boxboard
• Post-it notes

ALL ABOVE RECYCLABLES CAN GO IN THE BLUE BINS
LABELED MIXED PAPER
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RECYCLE Cardboard

• Corrugated cardboard ONLY goes in the orange
  bins. Corrugated cardboard has a wavy layer
  sandwiched in the middle.
• NO PIZZA BOXES

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Process of Recycling What happens after I
recycle it?
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Mixed Paper and Cardboard
Our office paper, old newspapers, magazines, and
cardboard are broken down at the Springfield
Materials Recycling Facility and remade into
other paper products such as paper towels, paper
cups, and toilet tissue.
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Commingled Bottles and Cans
All types of containers are collected together in
the bottles and cans bin on our campus are
taken to the Springfield Materials Recycling
Facility and sorted into different types of
glass, plastic, and aluminum.
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Glass Bottles

• Clear glass is melted into new glass products
  while mixed colored glass is crushed and used in
  the manufacture of abrasives (like sandpaper) and
  in asphalt (for roads and buildings).

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Plastic Bottles

• PET Plastic is eventually made into fibers and
  used to make polyester products such as t-shirts,
  carpets, fleece jackets.

Crushed PET bottles
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Plastic Bottles (cont.)
HDPE Plastic (such as detergent and milk bottles)
is eventually made into plastic lumber used to
produce decking and benches. It can also be used
to make new HDPE plastic containers.
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Aluminum Cans

• Aluminum cans are melted and remanufactured into
  new aluminum cans and foil. And each time we
  recycle an aluminum can, we save 95 of the
  energy needed to make aluminum from raw
  materials.

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With your everyday actions, you can change the
campus for the better!With our powers
combinedwe can change the world!
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Brought to you by Your Friendly Eco-Reps
Rudmila Rahman, Anna Wei, Ningmei Zhuang,
Giselle Pasamonte, and Erin Coates