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On-Campus Programs
Rutgers WINS!!!
Celebration!! Friday, April 25, Lunchtime at all RU Dining and Student Centers
Rutgers Wins RecycleMania 2008 Poster
 RecycleMania Kick-Off video
The 2.8 million pound Rutgers Gorrilla dominates AGAIN!
RecycleMania, part of the US EPA's WasteWise Program, is a 10 week recycling competition among colleges and universities across the U.S. to see which school can collect the largest amount of recyclables over the course of the competition. This competition, which includes all Rutgers University Faculty, Staff and Students, runs from January 27, 2008 through April 5, 2008. Visit the RecycleMania website to find out more www.recyclemaniacs.org . Visit the Rutgers RecycleMania MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/recyclemaniarutgers. Also, visit the official Rutgers RecycleMania website for more information http://www.fos.rutgers.edu/RecycleMania/Recycle.htm .
Please do your part to recycle cans, glass and plastic bottles, and paper. It not only improves our chances of winning the competition, it also benefits society in its fight to preserve our planet.
30% Recycled Content Paper Initiative
The paper industry is the largest consumer of forests in the Southern US, currently logging an estimated 5 million acres of forests (an area the size of New Jersey ) each year. Source: USDA Forest Service Southern Forest Resource Assessment 2001
Rutgers is committed to using a minimum of 30% recycled content paper whenever and wherever possible (see memo). The university has made it very easy and cost effective to order regular, 3-hole punch and legal size 30% recycled paper through an Internal Purchase Order, delivered to your door. Visit the Material Services website: http://www.material.rutgers.edu/paper.shtml for more information.
Common Myths:
MYTH: Recycled paper jams copiers.
FACT: Today's recycled copier paper is high quality and technically perfected for use in copiers. If the paper jams in a copier, it is not because of the recycled content. It may be that the ream sat opened for a long time and absorbed moisture. Sometimes people use paper that's not formulated for copiers and then wonder why it jams. Use paper qualified as "high-speed" for high speed copiers. The machine may need cleaning or adjusting. Try another brand of recycled paper, just as you'd try another brand of virgin paper. Source: Recycled Paper Coalition and Buy Recycled Business Alliance
MYTH: The little fibers in recycled paper create too much dust in machines.
FACT: Excessive dust comes not from recycled fibers but from inadequate production processes or incomplete vacuuming of cut paper sides. Buy high quality paper to void such problems. Source: Recycled Paper Coalition and Buy Recycled Business Alliance
MYTH: It's better to burn paper for energy than to recycle it.
FACT: The fibers in fine paper can be recycled up to a dozen times before becoming too short for papermaking, saving resources, water and energy, and reducing pollution each one of those times. The impact and value of these repeated savings are much greater than the minimal amount of energy produced when the paper is burned instead. Source: Recycled Paper Coalition and Buy Recycled Business Alliance
MYTH: Making recycled paper is environmentally damaging.
FACT: Recycled paper production saves trees, energy and water, produces less pollution, uses more benign chemicals, and requires less bleaching than virgin paper production. It also solves a community disposal problem. The only area in which recycled paper creates more disposal materials is in the greater amount of sludge produced than virgin papermaking. But the problem materials that fall into recycled paper sludge would otherwise have been scattered throughout landfills or concentrated in incinerator emissions or ash. Recycling mill sludge becomes an environmentally preferable way of handling potentially toxic materials such as inks and additives. The sludge of many recycling mills tests non-toxic. Sludge that tests hazardous can be disposed of by an environmentally controlled method. Source: Recycled Paper Coalition and Buy Recycled Business Alliance
Green Cleaning
Please visit the Rutgers University Facilities webpage to learn all about this award-winning initiative which is now being implemented campus-wide http://facilities.rutgers.edu/UF/New.html. Make sure you click on the link to their inspiring and informative Power Point Presentation!
Biodiesel
Learn all about how biodiesel is being used at Rutgers by reading the article on page three of REHS' December 2006 Newsletter http://rehs.rutgers.edu/pdf_files/rehs_news_winter_2006.pdf. While you're there, why not read up on some of the other great initiatives they are running and/or promoting!
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