Student Recycling Positions

Most of the positions at Campus Recycling are student recycler positions. These serve to perform operational duties of servicing the collection sites. These positions are mostly physical labor and involve heavy lifting, driving recycling program vans, handling program service and other equipment as needed, servicing collection routes, sorting paper, processing paper at the recycling warehouse for markets, delivering other recyclables such as bottles/cans and kitchen recyclables to the processor at the Glenwood transfer station and other maintenance and education functions as needed. Students are primary interface with the campus community.

General Description of student recycler positions

Student Recycler positions are as follows:

Paper routes:
students go to the warehouse location for their shift and receive a route list from the Paper Recycling Coordinator. Perform program vehicle inspection, receive any special instructions and begin shift. They use maps and collect paper at over 1000 office and public collection areas.

Paper sorting:
Paper sorters report to the warehouse and spend their shift sorting barrels of paper brought back to the warehouse by paper route crew. Additional other warehouse functions as needed including: cleaning equipment, assisting in staging materials for market, processing other bottles and cans as needed.

ROSE recycler:
this position assists the Recycling Operations Coordinator in managing the 2 campus reusable office supply exchanges (PLC and Facilities) available to all faculty, staff, admin, student groups and GTF's. This includes inventory, shelving, rotation of stock, room maintenance, tracking, cost savings analysis.

Housing recyclers:
this position performs recycling duties in all housing areas. In the Residence Halls, recyclers centralize housing collection materials to central locations while keeping areas maintained and removing contamination from recycling bins. Recyclers also source separate glass, aluminum and plastics in bottle/can collection and additionally sort paper materials to prepare for market. There are over 85 sites in Housing. Materials are centralized for van crew pick-up.

EMU:
Students report to the EMU office for a variety of EMU route duties at the EMU. They are responsible for all EMU service as designated through Student Recycling Coordinator. Besides servicing multi-materials, they are responsible for staging area maintenance and managing extra pick-ups as determined by events at EMU.

Lawrence Hall/Architecture Studios:
As with the EMU, Lawrence Hall has extensive recycling demands due to the amount of materials generated from the studios on top of daily recycling areas. Additional challenges are during architecture reviews. Huge cleanouts are organized through this area. Special challenges arise with use of exacto-knife blades in this area and large amounts of cardboard.

Walking BC's and Bicycle collection routes:
In order to increase efficiency and reduce cost and environmental impact on Program vehicle use, the walking BC and bicycle routes were created. These service all the outside drop-off sites (PDO's, public drop-offs) and all building campus bottles/cans collection sites.

Van Routes:
Students service all centralized paper, kitchen recyclables and bottles/cans at student areas such as EMU, Lawrence, PDO's and Family Housing. Additionally, van routes support central collection of events from athletics (football, basketball and track) to other campus events/conferences/festivals. This involves driving vans in teams, pre-sorting as they switch out barrels and delivering to appropriate areas (paper to warehouse, other materials to BRING @ Glenwood Transfer station).

Program Administrative Assistant:
Generally, one or two student program administrative assistants work in the program (depending on funding). The position requires technical knowledge and supports all program staff on administrative duties. The position: manages program tally/tracking sheets, is responsible for making brochures, signs, educational campaigns and materials, performing research, analysis and other administrative duties as they come up.

Student Events Coordinator:
This position coordinates, organizes and oversees all campus events recycling including: athletics, street fairs, folk festival, HOPES Conference, E-LAW Conference, Sustainable Business Symposium and other campus programs as needed.

This position: identifies event, contacts event coordinator, performs assessment on additional recycling/composting needed, consults event coordinator on waste reduction, requirements for acceptable compostable materials (i.e.foodware), creates vendor and contract info., meets with vendors, organizes recycling and composting of materials, organizes event collection system, staffing, volunteers, sets-up events, schedules service, does collections, trouble-shooting, event wrap-up, tracks event waste stream, reports to Program Manager on efficacy of event.

This position serves to manage program events manual, updates set-up, tracks history, reviews University scheduling and determines extra recycling needs. This position involves administrative and operational duties. Additionally, this position works with other community professionals(City waste manager, Rexius Manager), to determine expansion possibilities and development of expanded composting and other event practices to move the University towards Zero Waste events.

Additionally, this position works flexible hours and often times on weekends as needed. The need for this position has arisen out of increased demand for recycling services at events as well as providing an opportunity to expand program material base to compostables and increased waste recovery. Events are high profile for the campus and surrounding community.

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