The materials listed below can be recycled in the blue bins conveniently located at recycling stations around campus. To find out when PSU Recycles! services your building, please review our Recycling Schedule.
Books: hard and soft bound (Please contact PSU Recycles! if you plan to recycling more than 10-15 at once)
Cardboard
Manila folders
Newspaper
Paper (all colors)
Paper grocery bags
Paper towel tubes
Paper with staples, paperclips, tape
Paperboard (cereal boxes, etc.)
Shredded paper (bagged only)
Spiral notebooks
Plastic (+)
Empty plastic bottles*
Yogurt tubs, buckets up to 5gals*
Bundled clean plastic grocery bags
Metal (Together)
Cans (aluminum, tin or steel)*
Scrap metal
Glass (Separate)
Glass bottles and jars*
*All recyclable food containers must be emptied and free of food residue.
Batteries
Household batteries can be
recycled at the following locations: PSU Bookstore 2nd floor; Mongomery
and Ondine Residence Life desks; SMSU Market, and ASPSU Office, SMSU
117. To receive a free battery bucket for your area, simply fill out a
Work Order for Environmental Health and Safety on the Facilities and Planning Website.
These Materials Are Not Recyclable:
Coffee cups
Plastic and paper drink cups
Pizza boxes
Napkins
Candy wrappers
Special Request Materials
Some of the following materials may require special handling. For chemicals, lithographic silver, solvents, light tubes, batteries, pyrex, or lab glass, please submit a work order request to PSU Hazardous Chem/Bio Waste Pickup (Environmental Health & Safety). For computers & monitors, all electronics, and large office supplies of value, please submit a work order request to PSU Shipping/Delivery/Mail (Warehouse). In order to recycle any of the following materials, please submit a work order request:
Batteries: Alkaline, nicate, vehicle, all other types