Check out the inside scoop: News on composting & recycling!

Report Departmental Recycling :

Time for All StAR (All State Agencies Recycle) Survey!

Total campus waste and recycling weights must be sent to the Maryland Department of the Environment. Report your department's recycled items for calendar year 2012:
For more information contact Donna Anderson, d_anderson@umbc.edu by Jan 31.

Did you know?

You can request your own cardboard recycling bin (there are small tabletop bins for offices as well as the large free standing rectangular bins) by contacting recycle@umbc.edu

UMBC has dual stream recycling! By sorting paper out into a bin separate from glass, plastics, and aluminum, we make recycling most efficient & effective!

We are already doing great things!

• UMBC Recycling Rate for 2011 was 28%!

Pepsi Dream Machine: UMBC placed in the Top 10 out of thousands nationwide with our brand new rewards system: the Dream Machine.

• UMBC was the only university in March & April to place in Top 10 in 2012
  
• UMBC made it to the #3 spot last May!
• Translation: we are recycling winners
  
• The dream machine is a recycling rewards reverse vending machine in the Commons, across from Au Bon Pain
  
• You can scan in and then drop off your bottles and recyclables into the machine, and earn points on your membership card
• Points add up to free prizes!

Harbor Hall will have a new healthy snack machine, healthy drink machines coming it's way, along with another Dream Machine arriving this week! Head over to the Harbor Hall Cafe on the ground floor to check it out!

Composting!

Composting is moving forward! It started this fall with True Grits Dining Hall composting all the food waste, and now the Commons is on board too! If you have ideas and suggestions on where you would like to see composting available on campus, let us know! Just drop off your biodegradable food scraps in the labeled bin to help turn organic matter back into healthy fertile soil, rather than filling up endless landfills! Unless of course, the movie Wall-ee didn't move you at all! 😉

Pepsi cups from the Commons are compostable, as are labelled containers from Outtakes, Fresh Fusions & Wild Greens Salads