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CA Campus Recycling Efforts Top 1 Million Pounds

The California campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is growing greener. In its second full year of implementation, the single-stream recycling program surpassed 1 million pounds of collections, including cardboard, plastics, glass, aluminum/metals and paper—enough to fill nearly one entire floor of the campus’s Beckman building, from floor to ceiling.

“The success of the 2012 single-stream recycling program is even more remarkable when you consider just three years ago, in 2010, the campus recycled a measly 210,162 pounds of waste materials,” said Pete Herold, vice president of facility services and CA Green Team chair. “Now there’s more than 1 million pounds we don’t have to pay to haul to the landfill.”

Herold extended his thanks to the faculty and staff who have embraced the program, the Student Sustainability Initiative, which helped launch single-stream recycling and encouraged participation, and Larry DeGreif and the Environmental Services staff, who helped implement the program.

Last year’s precise recycled materials total was 1,031,374 pounds, said Ramon Juarez, environmental services quality assurance and training coordinator and the single-stream recycling program supervisor. Recycling in the Immunization and Microbial Science Building and the Molecular and Experimental Medicine building contributed significantly to the upsurge.

The campus-wide effort eliminates sorting recyclables by type and allows users to discard all recycled material in blue bins located in most labs and offices. For further information on single-stream recycling and other Green Team initiatives, visit the group’s website.

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“Now there’s more than 1 million pounds [of recyclable material] we don’t have to pay to haul to the landfill,” says Vice President of Facility Services Pete Herold.

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