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

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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) bulbs

instead of incandescents (they use 75% less energy).

Reducing your impact on the environment is the first, and maybe the most important, of

the 4 Rs.

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

Keep waste out of landfills and reduce demand for resources and energy needed to manufacture and

transport new goods around the globe.

Where: Phillips Hall 196 (by Career Services)When: Hours are on the REMP website:

ithaca.edu/remp.

OSCAR is a free program that allows you to donate unwanted but useful office supplies for others to

use.

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).When: Hours are on the REMP website: ithaca.edu/remp.

TIOLI is a free program designed to reduce waste generated on campus going to the landfill

and promote reuse.

Single stream recycling means you can now mix recyclable paper, glass, metal, and plastic containers in one bin – no sorting necessary!

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

Plastic bags Styrofoam Drinking glasses, Pyrex,

coffee pots Paper cups, tissues,

napkins

Hangers Syringes Compostable plastics Containers from

hazardous waste

What’s accepted:

What’s not accepted:

Computers/Laptops Printer cartridges Rechargeable batteries Televisions Monitors

Cordless and cell phones Compact fluorescent light

(CFL) bulbs Any other electronics

•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.

E-waste recycling:

How to prepare recycling:

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 on-line service request through the Office of Facilities at ithaca.edu/facilities/src.

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!

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 products locally.

6. “Re-sell” as well—on Swidjit, Craigslist, eBay, or Amazon to make back money on your gently used products.

Purchase post-consumer, recycled, organic, fair trade, local goods to create a market for them.