Office Cleanouts

If you are planning on cleaning out your office, moving or cleaning out your files, please contact the Paper Recycling Coordinator at 541-346-5275. We will give you extra barrels to assist you in this process and when you've filled these, call for us to trade them out with more empty barrels, or call for us to pick them up when you are finished! The Paper Recycling Coordinator can assist you in recycling other non-paper items. Remember to bring extra office supplies to ROSE and furniture you don't need anymore to Surplus Furniture .

For Campus Recycling office clean outs, we ask people to plan ahead. When they call us, we try to assess the sorting possibilities and setup a time for barrels to be delivered. An office clean-out kit is given to each office doing a clean out. This kit contains signs for each grade of office paper to clip onto the barrels. Pick-up of the barrels is done on an on-call basis, and we ask that you give our crews 48 hours to service your clean-out barrels. .

Office Clean-
Out Guidelines

Sorting paper properly and pulling out contaminants from office clean-outs is time intensive and strains our labor resources at Campus Recycling. Please help us out and sort your materials appropriately.

Signs
Attached, you will find signs for each grade of office paper. To make sorting easier, please clip the signs to the clean-out barrels. Each sign lists the most common types of materials found within each paper category.

Other Recyclables

We can also provide separate clean-out barrels for other recyclable items found in offices/labs at the time of clean-outs. If you have large quantities of transparencies, toner cartridges, clean white block Styrofoam, DVDs/CDs, audio/video cassettes, clean petri dishes, hard plastic, sheet plastic, Styrofoam packing peanuts (bag separately in plastic bags), or even bottles & cans, please let us know when you call for your clean-out barrels so that we can make sure you get a separate barrel for each category.

Contaminants
Transparencies are one of the most troublesome - and costly - contaminants found in office clean-out barrels intended for paper categories. (We can recycle transparencies but we ask that you sort them into a separate receptacle – see above.) Please remember that carbon paper, paper food containers, foam-board, foam rubber, tissue and food wrappers are all garbage and should not be included in the clean-out barrels or the hallway paper recycling sites.

R.O.S.E.
If you have surplus office supplies in good shape that may be reused, please bring them to the
Reusable Office Supply Exchange
in room 182 PLC. The key is available from the English Department office in 118 PLC.

Finished?
When the barrels are nearly full and you need them traded out for empties, or they are full and your clean-out is complete, simply call for a trade out or a pick-up. Please allow our crew 48 hours to respond to your call.

Thanks for recycling!
Campus Recycling
Tel. 541-346-5275

Office clean-outs and large moves are generally dealt with at no charge to the customer. And while we are occasionally able to get funding from the construction and moving budgets for the largest projects, these funds are neither guaranteed nor sufficient to overcome short-term staffing, equipment and other resource needs. We ask you, therefore, to help us to keep this service viable by following a few simple guidelines

Plan for moves and clean-outs well in advance. Call 541-346-5275 for special deliveries of large fiber barrels or other containers to keep your project from adversely impacting the regular hallway recycling sites (we can generally deliver as many containers as you have room for).
Allow us plenty of advance notification of your need to have the full barrels traded out for empties or removed (we are not always able to make a special trip to do so and may have to service your clean-out barrels during our regular servicing of your building).
If possible, designate a staff member or student employee to assist in the process of culling out recyclables from your retainable documents and to sort recyclable paper according to our guidelines.

Carefully and completely sort all materials. Paper should be sorted into the paper grades listed above, and non-paper items should be removed and dealt with as enumerated above.

Unsorted materials are our greatest source of inefficiency. A single barrel containing the unsorted contents of a filing cabinet can take an hour or longer to sort completely, with special focus on removing non-paper contaminants which are unacceptable in any paper grade. This is an hour which could be better spent servicing several recycling sites or even an entire building, or processing many barrels of sorted material. Please help us to extend our basic services to as much of the campus community as possible by doing your part to sort your recyclables and other clean-out materials. .

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