Resource and Environmental Management Program

No excuses, we recycle!

Here's how you can make your impact positive by starting to recycle today:

1. JUST DO IT! Make the decision to recycle - it's so easy, there is absolutely no excuse not to.

2. Find out what to recycle. Here is a list of all the things IC will accept in on-campus recycling bins, and here is a list of all the things you can recycle off-campus!

3.  Find out how to recycle. On campus, all you have to do is use the green bins (for containers) and blue bins (for paper), and empty them into the corresponding bins located outside your dorm building! Look for other recycling bins around campus too.  Off-campus, you can check here for information about curbside recycling and the Tompkins County Recycling and Solid Waste Center

4. Find out why!  Recycling makes good sense for our natural environment, our economy, and us.  Instead of using materials once, throwing them away in a landfill and then replacing them with new raw materials, you can recycle - this will reduce pollution from the manufacturing process, reduce energy that would otherwise be used to create new materials, and conserve natural resources.  Ultimately, all of this will save you money, because things made from recycled content use less energy to produce than raw materials! (Keep in mind that here at IC, we have to pay to get rid of our trash, but we are paid for what we recycle.  It's kind of like getting paid twice for recycling - we save the money from not throwing it away and we get paid to recycle!  It just makes sense.)

Please see the navigation bar for more instructions on what, how, and when to recycle both on and off-campus!