K-State Recycling Center Open House/Grand Opening:
February 10, 2012 from 11:30am-1:45pm.
Please join us at 1pm with President Schulz for an offical ribbon cutting to our new recycling facility. The Recycling Center is located NE of Weber Hall and north of Moore and Haymaker Residence Halls.
Why Recycle?
Kansas State University is committed to becoming a more environmentally aware community by expanding recycling efforts across the campus. Our goal is to enhance the campus environment, minimize the waste stream, decrease waste management costs and help our planet.
The Recycling Program started in 1989 and is coordinated through the Facilities / Custodial Department. Currently 30 buildings are participating in some form of recycling. The Program is now being restructured to better serve the University community. We are relocating existing receptacles, adding new receptacles, including new products and increasing staff in order to improve recycling efforts.
Spring 2009, K-State participated with their first effort in the national program called RecycleMania. Go to the K-State '12 RecycleMania page.
Did you know that K-State recycles more cardboard than any other material?
Photo taken at the new K-State Recycling Center.
What Can Be Recycled?
The bulk of recyclable materials generated at K-State is mixed paper, cardboard, newspapers, and magazines. K-State recycles many other materials.
Here's what you can recycle at K-State:
- Mixed paper - white and colored paper, letterhead, index cards, white forms.
- Cardboard
- Computer paper
- Magazines
- Newspaper - Collegian and other newspapers.
- Plastic pop bottles
- Aluminum cans
- Wooden pallets
- Phone books/ directories - Seasonal
- Rubber bands
- Shredded paper
K-State Does Not Recycle:
Adhesives, Garbage, Bright Fluorescent paper, Wrap from reams of paper, Binders, Brown Envelopes, Carbon paper, Paper towels, Food Tape, Food wrappers, Plastic or Styrofoam cups.
Where Do I Recycle at K-State?
Recycle bins are located across campus both inside and outside buildings.
Go to the lists of campus locations.
How Do I Recycle at K-State?
Everyone succeeds if we all recycle. Various collection bins are located around campus (find out where). Please do your part by finding out what recycling services are available for you.
For Faculty/Staff: KSU deskside bin program. Faculty and staff can request special deskside bins by KSU Facilities at 532-6446, recycles@ksu.edu. Recycled materials include newspaper, mixed paper, and magazines. For more information, contact
For Students: Living groups, dormitories, and Greek programs. Many living groups and dormitories have implemented their own recycling programs in coordination with KSU Recycling pickup. There is also an exciting new Greeks Going Green program involving most fraternities.
Game Day Recycling 2011
Students for Environmental Action (SEA), KSU Facilities, KSU Athletics and numerous clubs and living groups are helping to collect and sort plastic bottles and cans from the 2011 home football games.
Do your part for recycling by making sure your cans and bottles get recycled during the home football games. Many thanks to everyone involved in helping our campus go Green!
K-State 2010 Recycling Survey
The K-State Recycling Committee is in the process of establishing long-term recycling plans for campus. In May, 2010 the committee conducted a campus-wide recycling survey with ~2000 responses. THANK YOU to those of you who participated!
Survey Results: 77% currently recycle, 42% have a desk-side recycle bin, paper (78%) and newspaper (82%) are the most recycled items. View our survery results at...K-State Recycling Survey
Do You Recycle? iRecycle!
This cool app from Earth911.com shows tons of materials that can be recycled. Enter your zip code and it tells you where to recycle. This app is good for Android and iOS. Check it out!
RecycleMania 2012
What is RecycleMania? From Feb. 5 to March 31, 2012, it's a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for 600 college 
and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.
Kansas State University continues to show improvement in our recycling efforts . During the 2011 competition, K-State collected and diverted 173,579 pounds of recyclables from our waste stream – This equals 7.02 pounds of recyclables- cumulative /per person – for a recycling rate of about 19% (up from 16% for 2010)- resulting in an overall ranking of 261 out of 363 participating schools. We even beat KU who only had a rate of 5.92 lbs/person.
Go to 2012 RecyleMania K-State Page for more information and weekly totals.
K-State Recycles Glass Bottles
K-State now recycles glass bottles! It's easy to do. Just look for any campus plastic bottle recycling bin. Glass bottles can be combined with plastic bottles and sorted later. Tell all your friends of this new recycling service!
K-State Game Day Recycling /
EPA Game Day Challenge - Oct. 30
During the month of October, U.S. colleges and universities implemented waste reduction programs during a home football game.
K-State's Game Day Recycling program participated in the Challenege. EPA will announce the winning schools in November.
Thanks to everyone (including SEA) who helped in the effort.
For Game Day on Oct 30, K-State recycled 432 pounds of plastic bottles, 390 pounds of aluminum cans and 440 pounds of glass bottles.
Kats Striving to become GREEN
KSU Green is about Promoting, Identifying, and Implementing. Recycling has become important in today's society and continues to become a more important factor to environmental sustainability.
KSU Green is an umbrella organization that is inspiring the KSU campus to get involved in the improvement of our campus and environment. To see how you can get involved in the KSU Green movement visit the KSU Green Facebook Group.
Get Caught Recycling
This handy brochure contains all the
recycling information at K-State.
Updating the Brochure, please check back.
The U.S. throws away around 200 million tons of garbage each day. The average American generates about 4 pounds of garbage each day at home and at work. That is approximately 1,460 pounds per person per year!
Deskside office bin.
We throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. The energy saved from recycling one aluminum can will run your TV for 3 hours. Recycling aluminum takes only 5% of the energy needed to manufacture it from raw material.