Using these easy tips!
Lighten your environmental
footprint with these simple
steps from the Resource and
Environmental Management
Program (REMP). Not only are
they better for the planet,
but they’ll benefit your
wallet and your wellbeing,
too!
Contact us:
ithaca.edu/remp
irecycle@ithaca.edu
(607) 274-1777
“Like” us on Facebook:
facebook.com/icremp
How much you buy and use
Reducing your impact on the
environment is the first, and maybe
the most important, of the 4 Rs.
1. Buy products with less packaging, and
use your own containers to buy food in
bulk.
2. Ditch unhealthy, packaged food for
whole foods, and don’t take more food
than you will eat in the dining halls.
3. Use a cloth towel instead of paper
towels.
4. Use both sides of paper when printing.
5. Don’t let advertising manipulate you.
Before every purchase, ask yourself,
“Do I really need this?”
6. Unplug electronics when you’re not
using them. Most still use energy even
when switched off.
7. Turn off the lights when you’re the
last one to leave a room.
8. Take shorter showers.
9. Walk, run, ride a bike, take the bus,
or carpool.
10.Only do full loads of laundry, and
use cold water when you do.
11.Use compact fluorescent light (CFL)
What you can
Keep waste out of landfills and reduce
demand for resources and energy needed to
manufacture and transport new goods around
the globe.
1. Avoid disposables!
Use a reusable
water bottle, coffee mug, shopping
bags, plates and utensils, everything!
2. During move-out in the spring, be sure
to drop off whatever you don’t want to
take home in the TIOLI bins that will
be set out in the lounge of each dorm…
and take whatever you want!
3. Other places to find great secondhand
items:
• Finger Lakes ReUse
•
ShareTompkins
• Trader K’s
•
Salvation Army
• Mimi’s Attic
• Yard
sales
• Swidjit (swidjit.com/ithaca) •
Craigslist
• Ithaca FreeCycle
(Office Supply Collection and Reuse)
OSCAR is a free program that allows you to
donate unwanted but useful office supplies
for others to use.
Where: Phillips Hall 196 (by Career Services)
When: Hours are on the REMP website:
ithaca.edu/remp.
(Take It Or Leave It)
TIOLI is a free program designed to
reduce waste generated on campus going
to the landfill and promote reuse.
Donate gently used items such as clothing,
furnishings, kitchen supplies, and more to
TIOLI. Before you buy something new, see if
we have it! Inventory is always changing and
depends on donations from people like you!
During move-out in the spring, bins will be
put in the lounge of each dorm—be sure to
drop off whatever you don’t want to take
home… and take whatever you want!
Where: The TIOLI room is in Clarke Hall (a
sign at the main entrance will have a number
to call to let you in).
Whatever is left
Single stream recycling means you can
now mix recyclable paper, glass, metal,
and plastic containers in one bin – no
sorting necessary!
What’s accepted:
 Cardboard and mixed
paper: cardboard, pizza
boxes, cereal boxes,
newspaper, junk mail,
magazines, books
 Small rigid plastics:
shower caddies, flower
pots, ice cube trays,
small plastic toys, and
other hard plastics no
larger than a 5 gallon
bucket
 Glass containers: glass
food and beverage bottles
and jars, all colors
 #1-7 Plastics: bottles,
tubs, carry-out containers
 Paper milk and juice
cartons: drink boxes, milk
cartons, and soup boxes
 Metal cans and foil:
aluminum foil, food cans,
empty aerosols
What’s not accepted:
 Plastic bags
 Styrofoam
 Drinking glasses, Pyrex,
coffee pots
 Paper cups, tissues,
napkins
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Hangers
Syringes
Compostable plastics
Containers from
hazardous waste
E-waste recycling:
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Computers/Laptops
Printer cartridges
Rechargeable batteries
Televisions
Monitors
 Cordless and cell phones
 Compact fluorescent
light (CFL) bulbs
 Any other electronics
E-waste can be dropped off in bins in the
following locations:
• Residence hall Area Offices
• Garden 27 mail room
• Circles Community Center mail room
• The Take It Or Leave It (TIOLI) room in
Clarke Hall
To have large items picked up, submit an online service request through the Office of
Facilities at ithaca.edu/facilities/src.
How to prepare recycling:
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Do not use plastic bags to collect your recycling.
Empty and rinse containers.
Remove caps and lids.
If possible, flatten milk cartons and drink boxes.
Remove straws from drink boxes.
Staples, paper clips, rubber bands and envelope windows
are okay.
• Flatten cardboard boxes. Cardboard that does not fit in
the recycling bin can be placed next to it.
RecycleMania is a national competition
and benchmarking tool for college and
university recycling programs to
promote waste reduction activities in
their campus communities. Over 10
weeks from January to April, schools
report recycling and trash data which
are then ranked according to who
collects the largest amount of
recyclables per capita, the largest
amount of total recyclables, the least
amount of trash per capita, or has the
highest recycling rate.
Ithaca College has participated in the
competition since 2005, and our goal
is to reach a 50% recycling rate. So
use this guide to keep up your
recycling, look for our stats in the
contest throughout the semester, and
participate in the events REMP will be
holding to promote the competition!
To close the loop
Purchase post-consumer, recycled,
organic, fair trade, local goods to
create a market for them.
1. Look for products that are made of
recycled materials and are recyclable
(including the packaging). For
example, Preserve makes toothbrushes
from recycled yogurt cups in packaging
that doubles as a mailer so you can
send it back to them when you need a
new toothbrush.
2. Always look for local or used options
before going to a big box store for
your necessities.
3. Look for “Fair Trade” items which paid
the producer a living wage, and for
high amounts of post-consumer recycled
content.
4. Avoid items that are cheap up front,
but have a large environmental cost
that will “cost” you and your children
in the future, such as mass-produced
plastic toys and highly processed
foods.
5. Check fingerlakesbuygreen.org for
places to buy environmentally friendly