Recycling & Trash Collection
Recycling
We have an obligation to acknowledge that our world is alive, and it is our responsibility to care for and protect it so that it can be shared by future generations. We should be concerned not only about the incidents that involve major environmental pollutions, but also the many small ways that we can add to the protection of our world. Sacred Heart is firmly committed to this goal, and we have grown over the past several years in our campus efforts at recycling.
Together with our waste hauler we are now able to make our recycling efforts extremely simple: there is no need to separate recyclables! All recycling materials can now be a part of a Single Stream Recycling Program in which materials are mixed together to be separated at the transfer station.
Our goal is to reduce our trash waste stream by 10%. Almost all of this can be accomplished by a united effort at increasing our recycling efforts. Please do your part each day.
See our list of items that can become a part of this Single Stream Recycling below. Please study it and be aware of all that can be placed in recycling with no separation.
Accepted Recycling Material
- Newspapers
- Cardboard
- Magazines
- Catalogs
- Telephone books/soft covered books
- Brown paper bags
- Paper/paperboard (i.e. cereal boxes & shoe boxes)
- Mail/envelopes (windows accepted)
- Office paper
- All other office paper without wax liner
- Direct mail items
- Manila folders
- Pizza boxes
- Colored poster paper
- Post-it notes
- Aluminum food & beverage containers
- Aluminum pie plates, trays, foils
- Glass jars, bottles, and food & beverage containers - any color (brown, clear, green etc.)
- Metal cans (tin, steel, aluminum)
- PET plastic containers with the symbol #1
- HDPE natural plastic containers with the symbol #2 (soda, juice & water bottles)
- HDPE pigmented plastic containers with the symbol #2 (detergent, shampoo, bleach bottles etc.)
- Plastics (containers/bottles) with symbols #3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
- Aseptic and gable top containers - milk & juice cartons
All fiber must be dry and free of food debris and other contaminating material. Tissues, paper towel or other paper that has been in contact with food are not acceptable. All glass containers must be empty and free of metal caps and rings and contain less than 5% food debris. All tin cans, bi-metal cans and aluminum cans must be empty and contain less than 5% food debris. All aerosol cans must be empty with less than 5% content. All plastic containers must be empty, caps removed and have less than 5% food debris.
Trash Collection
Trash is collected daily by the custodial staff in all campus buildings and residence halls. It is then brought to the collection sites for our hauler to transport to the designated disposal or recycling centers.