Green Holiday tips from campus recycling

Green Holiday Tips From Campus Recycling

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM CAMPUS RECYCLING!

In the excitement of the holiday season, it's easy to disregard the waste reduction habits we use throughout the year. A fun holiday season doesn't have to be a wasteful one.
Americans throw away 25% more trash - an additional 5 million tons - between Thanksgiving and New Year's eve.

GREEN TIPS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Consider the following tips for a greener holiday. They help lessen the impact of the holidays on both the earth and your pocketbook.
For more information about the environmental impacts of the holiday season, and links to websites with more waste reduction tips and green gift ideas, visit UO Recycling's Eco-tips page at http://www.uoregon.edu/~recycle/ecotips.htm

1. Send holiday greetings to family and friends via e-mail. If you prefer to send hand-written notes, make your own cards with paper you already have. Or look for holiday cards printed on recycled paper. Eliminate envelope waste by sending postcards or folding and sealing notes so you can address them on the outside.

2. Print holiday party flyers on recyclable pastels -- bright red and green paper hard to recycle!

3. For holiday parties, use reusable glass or plastic ware, and cloth napkins.

4. When shopping for gifts and holiday food, carry your own canvas bag or backpack, or reuse shopping bags.

5. Instead of material gifts, give gifts of your time or expertise. Consider gift certificates - for restaurants, movies, babysitting, etc. - or give consumable items such as baked goods.

6. If you buy gifts, look for durable and re-usable items and resist the latest "fad". Purchase gifts from local vendors, or that were made locally. Consider gifts made from recycled materials.

7. Wrap gifts in fabric, comics or your own decorated, reused paper. Create special cloth gift bags or decorated boxes that can be reused and traded among family members each year.

8. Make gift tags or decorations from last year's cards.

9. Reuse recyclable and recycled-content boxes and packing for mailing gifts.

10. Consider alternatives to a cut tree, such as a live tree, decorated house plant, or artificial tree.

11. Recycle any holiday waste from your household, see local options below.

12. Make a New Year's resolution to buy recycled products for your office and at home.

LOCAL INFO. FOR HOLIDAY RECYCLING:

Here's the local information for holiday recycling..
*Reuse wrapping paper and boxes as much as possible.
*Recycle any holiday waste from your household:

Wrapping paper can be recycled as long as it is really paper....
Please note: foil, tyvek, plastic backed wrapping paper and ribbon is GARBAGE and contaminates the recycling process!
*Make sure when you are recycling boxes and other containers, that they do not have any styrofoam glued to them. This also creates problems in the recycling process.

For Xmas tree recycling:
**NO FLOCKING OR DECORATIONS!

ON-CAMPUS-
Campus and Grounds will pick-up campus xmas trees before the start of winter term. If you have these to compost, please CALL and leave a message for Tim King at 346-5256 and let him know what building you are in. Then, place your tree by the dumpster and he will make sure they are picked up and composted (for future use on campus grounds, now that's recycling!)

FROM HOME-
Call Sanipac for home pick-up of trees for composting. They will be doing pick-ups on January 11 and January 18, both Saturdays. You need to schedule a pick-up. Sanipac can be reached 736-3600. There won't be a charge for this service BUT if you choose to leave trees with your regular garbage pick-up, you WILL be charged $4.

OR you could chop the tree up and put it in your curbside yard debris container. Same rules apply with other yard debris, which is it needs to be in the container with the lid closed. Yard debris containers with material overflowing and an unclosed lid, will not be serviced.

*There may be some local service organizations that will collect the trees but there hasn't been anything announced on this yet.
*Don't forget to compost food trimmings and uneaten leftovers in your backyard compost bin.

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Tips for a "Green" Holiday Season
Check it out here

Happy Holidays!; HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM CAMPUS RECYCLING!; In the excitement of the holiday season, it's easy to disregard the waste reduction habits we use throughout the year. A fun holiday season doesn't have to be a wasteful one.
Americans throw away 25% more trash - an additional 5 million tons - between Thanksgiving and New Year's eve.

GREEN TIPS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Consider the following tips for a greener holiday. They help lessen the impact of the holidays on both the earth and your pocketbook.
For more information about the environmental impacts of the holiday season, and links to websites with more waste reduction tips and green gift ideas, visit UO Recycling's Eco-tips page at http://www.uoregon.edu/~recycle/ecotips.htm
1. Send holiday greetings to family and friends via e-mail. If you prefer to send hand-written notes, make your own cards with paper you already have. Or look for holiday cards printed on recycled paper. Eliminate envelope waste by sending postcards or folding and sealing notes so you can address them on the outside. 2. Print holiday party flyers on recyclable pastels -- bright red and green paper hard to recycle! 3. For holiday parties, use reusable glass or plastic ware, and cloth napkins. 4. When shopping for gifts and holiday food, carry your own canvas bag or backpack, or reuse shopping bags. 5. Instead of material gifts, give gifts of your time or expertise. Consider gift certificates - for restaurants, movies, babysitting, etc. - or give consumable items such as baked goods. 6. If you buy gifts, look for durable and re-usable items and resist the latest "fad". Purchase gifts from local vendors, or that were made locally. Consider gifts made from recycled materials. 7. Wrap gifts in fabric, comics or your own decorated, reused paper. Create special cloth gift bags or decorated boxes that can be reused and traded among family members each year. 8. Make gift tags or decorations from last year's cards. 9. Reuse recyclable and recycled-content boxes and packing for mailing gifts. 10. Consider alternatives to a cut tree, such as a live tree, decorated house plant, or artificial tree. 11. Recycle any holiday waste from your household, see local options below. 12. Make a New Year's resolution to buy recycled products for your office and at home.: LOCAL INFO. FOR HOLIDAY RECYCLING:

Here's the local information for holiday recycling..
*Reuse wrapping paper and boxes as much as possible.
*Recycle any holiday waste from your household:; Wrapping paper can be recycled as long as it is really paper....
Please note: foil, tyvek, plastic backed wrapping paper and ribbon is GARBAGE and contaminates the recycling process!
*Make sure when you are recycling boxes and other containers, that they do not have any styrofoam glued to them. This also creates problems in the recycling process.; For Xmas tree recycling:
**NO FLOCKING OR DECORATIONS!; ON-CAMPUS-
Campus and Grounds will pick-up campus xmas trees before the start of winter term. If you have these to compost, please CALL and leave a message for Tim King at 346-5256 and let him know what building you are in. Then, place your tree by the dumpster and he will make sure they are picked up and composted (for future use on campus grounds, now that's recycling!); FROM HOME-
Call Sanipac for home pick-up of trees for composting. They will be doing pick-ups on January 11 and January 18, both Saturdays. You need to schedule a pick-up. Sanipac can be reached 736-3600. There won't be a charge for this service BUT if you choose to leave trees with your regular garbage pick-up, you WILL be charged $4.; OR you could chop the tree up and put it in your curbside yard debris container. Same rules apply with other yard debris, which is it needs to be in the container with the lid closed. Yard debris containers with material overflowing and an unclosed lid, will not be serviced.; *There may be some local service organizations that will collect the trees but there hasn't been anything announced on this yet.
*Don't forget to compost food trimmings and uneaten leftovers in your backyard compost bin.
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Tips for a "Green" Holiday Season
Check it out here: Happy Holidays!

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