At your request, CU Recycling crews will collect your sensitive documents and take them to our on-campus facility for shredding and recycling with a guarantee of confidentiality. A certificate of confidential destruction can be provided.

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Do you want our help with a special event or gathering? Fill out our Special Event Recycling Online Form!

Recycling efforts are strong at home football games. Go Buffs!

Collection Services
Special Collections
If you are cleaning out files, storerooms, etc. and have more recyclables than the current recycling station can handle, please call x25321 to arrange for special containers and collections.

Pallet Recycling
Used wooden pallets are collected from the main campus loading docks once a week. Please place your pallets out of the way. Do not put pallets in the trash. Call x25321 for a special pickup if you have a large quantity of pallets.

Battery Disposal
Environmental Health & Safety accepts sealed and non-leaking batteries from pagers, cell phones, laptops, etc. from University operations. Dispose alkaline batteries as trash. Contact 2-7845 for more info.

Be a Recycling Leader
By "adopting" a campus building, you’ll have the potential to influence your peers and save dozens of trees. Give us a call to find out how to educate other students, faculty and staff about the benefits and proper procedures of recycling.

E.I.R. - Environmental Impact Report
CU Recycling can provide your hall, building or department an EIR which documents the amount of material recycled and the equivalent environmental benefits. Display the poster to show that recycling makes a world of difference!

Tree-Saving Stack
A four foot stack of newspaper securely fastened to an attractive base. Designed to give a visual reminder of the benefit of individual participation: one four-foot stack of paper recycled, saves the equivalent of a forty-foot Douglas Fir tree.

Recycling and Waste Reduction Workshops

In-Office Recycling Presentation
Invite CU Recycling to your next meeting! This presentation can answer your questions about recycling, campus services, recycled products, how to reduce waste in your office and more. The program includes:

• slide show of the campus program
• hands-on question and answer period
• posters and materials for your office
• a recycling survey
• free coffee mugs and recycling stickers
• 10 - 45 minutes of great information (you determine the length)

Call CU Recycling at 303.492.8307 or email cure@colorado.edu to schedule a presentation.

Green Your Offices
Set up a visit for a CU Environmental Center representative to perform an educational audit on your office’s environmental practices. Feedback includes tips on how to become an environmentally friendly office as well as helpful information and resources on the following topics:

• recycling
• waste reduction
• procurement
• energy use
• transportation
• pest management

Call 303.492.8307 or email cure@colorado.edu to schedule a visit.

Green Teams
The Green Teams are students who share environmental information with students who live on the Hill or in the Goss/ Grove area. Mainly, the Green Teams help give recycling information to residents of off-campus households. Many students are living on their own for the first time. The Green Teams help get them off to the right start. Hopefully, they’ll keep good habits in future houses too.

We need your help to distribute information on what, when, where and how to properly recycle. Additionally, the Green Teams share other ‘green’ info—such as composting, energy and water conservation, and waste reduction—to student households.

The Green Teams meet Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4:00pm in the Environmental Center (University Memorial Center, Room 355). Plan to spend 2 hours spreading the word on Tuesdays and/or Wednesdays.  Training and materials will be provided. For more info, call 303-492-8307 or email ecenter@colorado.edu.

Faculty and Students:

CU Recycling facilitates a wide variety of academic projects which directly benefit our program and your resume. Students can apply their skills to real world problems. We have many ideas for student research projects or independent study. These span academia, from the Business School to Engineering to Environmental Studies. Contact us for internship opportunities, class presentation or paper topics, and research needs that will help the program and your coursework.

Recycling Facility Tours
CU’s Intermediate Processing Facility (IPF) is open and available for class or group tours. To schedule, call x28307.