{"id":260,"date":"2013-02-07T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/ofm\/?page_id=260"},"modified":"2025-01-22T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:49:27","slug":"recycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ofm\/campus-services\/recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resource Recovery\u2019s primary function is managing recycling and waste management services for much of the campus community. Paper products of all types generated on campus are collected for recycling, organic discards from dining facilities are collected for composting, construction and demolition debris is collected and sorted for recovery, and a host of other materials are recovered from the campus waste stream every year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please contact Resource Recovery, Facilities Management, at 581-3076 or email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:daniel.e.smith@maine.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">daniel.e.smith@maine.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 for additional information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>UMaine eWaste Recycling<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/it\/faculty-staff-resources\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UM IT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> now handles the collection and removal of all UMaine\u2019s eWaste needs. UMaine has partnered with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/giveitgetit.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GiveITGetIT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to safely and securely dispose of all campus eWaste with a focus on reusing useful working equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UM IT collects: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Computers \u2013 Desktops and Laptops<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monitors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AV Equipment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Computer p<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">arts, including hard drives<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please call UM IT at 1-800-696-4357 or email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:help@maine.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">help@maine.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to arrange assessment and collection of your eWaste.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>UMaine Campus Recycling<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of Maine is one of a growing number of communities that recycle. Currently, UMaine partners with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casella.com\/services\/recycling\/zero-sort-recycling\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Casella Waste Systems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for its Zero-Sort recycling services. All <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/sustainability\/initiatives\/recycling\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">accepted recyclable materials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can be placed in a blue recycling bin, and all non-recyclable waste (including food or food-contaminated material) can be placed in gray trash bins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0Recycling is as easy as 1-2-3!<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find a designated blue recycling bin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Place clean, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/sustainability\/initiatives\/recycling\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">accepted recyclable materials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into the blue recycling bin \u2013 no food or food-contaminated material!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let UMaine custodians take it from there\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For recycling-related questions, please contact the UMaine <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/sustainability\/initiatives\/recycling\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sustainability Office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at 581-1571.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Material Recovery Facility (MRF)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UMaine maintains a small Material Recovery Facility (MRF, pronounced \u2018murph\u2019) where a variety of bulky wastes and hard to dispose of materials generated from construction, land clearing, and renovation projects are staged, reprocessed for reuse, or processed for disposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Materials reprocessed for reuse include brush and tree waste, soil, asphalt, concrete, stone and other aggregate. Brush and tree waste is chipped and used on campus for building woodland paths or sold to local companies that use wood chips as biomass fuel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soil, asphalt, concrete, stone and other aggregates are stockpiled, crushed and screened, and reused in sidewalk and road construction projects, landscaping, drainage materials around culverts and piping, and various other applications suitable for these reclaimed materials.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please contact UMaine Resource Recovery at 581-3076 or email\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:daniel.e.smith@maine.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">daniel.e.smith@maine.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0for additional information or to request services.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resource Recovery\u2019s primary function is managing recycling and waste management services for much of the campus community. 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