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UI Recycling Facts

Exectuive Summary, "UI Campus Outdoor Plastics Recycling Project..and campus recycling improvements 2008"

For the calendar year 2007, students, faculty and staff at The University of Iowa generated the following waste:

Landfill Waste	9,064,361 lbs	75%
Refuse Recycled	2,543,120 lbs	25%
Total Refuse	11,607,481 lbs	100%

Help tip the scales!

Power Plant Ash
All boiler ash produced by the UI power plant is hauled to PC/Basic Materials in Waterloo to reclaim a limestone quarry. The 2006 total was 18,918 tons.

Contact Mark Maxwell at (319) 335-6185 if you have any questions about the ash recycling program.

The UI is generating 11% less total refuse today than a decade ago.

A pilot project turned 17 tons of UI food waste from HIllcrest Food Services into 45 cubic yards of high nitrogen compost (UI Compost Project)

The UI is recycling carpet during Planning, Design & Construction projects.

The UI is conducting move-out day recycling.

Directories and phone books are recycled through the normal commingled process or through arrangements with UI Business Services.

The UI designs and builds central recycling stations and deskside recycling into all new buildings. All academic and research facilities have deskside recycling.

Recycling bins are located in all University of Iowa academic buildings, sports complexes, residence halls and recreational facilities.

Contact the following UI staff for more information

Academic Research & Administration Buildings	Work Control Center	335-5071
Athletics	Damian Simcox	335-9410
Housing	Von Stange	335-3000
IMU	Kelli Grey	335-3138
Recreation	Michelle Harder	335-9293
UIHC	Marty Shafer	356-2277