Recycling at Guilford

Because Greensboro no longer has an operational landfill, trash from Greensboro gets sent roughly 80 miles away to Montgomery County. When you make the choice to recycle at Guilford, you save space in a transfer truck that gets about 6.5 miles to the gallon. As a result, you protect your own air quality and help to eliminate greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

At Guilford, it’s easy to recycle. Just put your recyclables in the blue bin in your room and when it is full, take it to the green recycling dumpster closest to your residence hall.

Green or clear recycling bags can be picked up from your RA, the Founders’ Information Desk, the Sustainability Coordinator's office in Bauman B-16, or the Sustainability Office located at King B-7.

 

What can I recycle? You can recycle the GAPPS.
GAPPS = Glass, Aluminum, Plastic, Paper, and Steel.

	G G Glass	All colors, shapes, and sizes of glass may be recycled.  Please remove all lids and caps.
	A A Aluminum	Any aluminum can can be recycled. Aluminum foil, however, should be discarded because it is not accepted through City of Greensboro recycling.
	P P Plastic	Only Bottles and Jugs that are either #1 PETE or # 2 HDPE can be recycled in the City of Greensboro.  Please remove lids and empty containers.
	P P Paper	Any color Office paper, magazines, newspaper, unwaxed cardboard, and chip board can be recycled.
	S S Steel	Lidless soup, fruit and vegetable cans and aerosol cans with the spray nozzle removed can be recycled at Guilford.

*Click on recyclable icons to learn more!

Other ways to Reduce-Reuse-Recycle at Guilford:

Reduce

• Buy bulk – Deep Roots and The Fresh Market are great for buying snacks, detergent, and teas.(Don’t forget to use your own containers!)
• Don’t use disposables for your campus potlucks and events.  Reserve the FREE Potluck Kit from the Sustainability Office by e-mailing a request to sustainability@guilford.edu.

Reuse

• Take your own bags when you grocery shop.
• Shop at thrift stores for clothes, novels, coffee cups, and other household items.
• Use the Green Room (King B-7) or - pick-up small items like lamps, trash cans, paper, pens, and art supplies at the beginning of school and drop items off at the end of the year.

Recycle

Items accepted at the Recycling Station found in King B-7 Sustainability Office:

• Batteries
• Printer cartridges
• Yogurt Containers if they are clean and have the lid
• Medicine bottles with labels removed
• Cell phones
• CDs and DVDs
• Packing material (If you need some, we have plenty!)
• Gently Used office/school supplies
• Old Eyeglasses
• Keys

Why does it matter?

• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to either run your television for three hours or to keep a 100 watt bulb burning for almost four hours. 
• Making products from recycled newspaper saves 40% of the energy that would be required to make the same products from virgin materials. 
• Recycling employs more than 13,000 North Carolinians, which is 48% more people employed by recycling just ten years ago.   
• It’s a cool planet, why waste it?

If you have questions or ideas, contact your Environmental Sustainability Coordinator at sustainability@guilford.edu or at 336.316.2923.