Recycling & Shredding

The University of Waterloo has a white box program. When the bag in the white box is full, the custodians empty it and take it down to the receiving area in your building. From there Central Stores picks it up and brings it over here where it gets put in bigger bins. An outside company then comes and picks it up from here. Please do not throw copier paper wrappers, carbon sheets, sticky labels, glass, plastic, transparencies and coffee cups into these white boxes! White boxes are strictly for white paper.

For colored paper, please put in cartons and call ext. 32262 for pick up.

For styrofoam please put in the garbage. It is no longer accepted as recycling.

Each individual is responsible for newsprint, cardboard, cans and bottles. Take these items to your receiving area and throw them in the proper bins. Large and small blue bins are obtainable from Central Stores by calling ext. 32262 for recycling plastic, glass, and metal cans. Central Stores does not pick these containers up.

Non-Confidential shredding should be sealed in cartons and marked as paper recycling. Call ext. 32262 when the boxes are ready and we will pick them up. Paper clips and staples are ok and do not need to be taken out.