Metadata Services Department Recycling Options
You may place ALL of the following in the blue recycle bins at your desk. Given our pest problems, please thoroughly rinse all food and drink from containers before placing them in the recycle bins.
- Aerosol cans containing no propellant or material
- Aluminum cans and clean foil
- Beverage and food containers: Clean glass, steel, and tin. Plastic bottles or containers with a #1 or #2 recycling symbol
- Mixed paper: White writing paper and stationary, tablet paper and tablet cardboard, white and colored copy paper, computer paper (green and blue bar), colored triplicate forms, sticky notes, paper wrappers (no food scraps!), magazines, newspaper, blueprint paper, envelopes, telephone books, paperback books, manila folders, boxboard (e.g., cracker or cereal boxes), corrugated cardboard. Shredded paper must be contained in plastic bags.
Batteries
Dispose of used batteries in the box located on top of the supply cabinet.
Printer cartridges
If you need a replacement for any of your printer cartridges, please see Shirley or Keziah. We'll recycle your old cartridge and give you a new one.
For more recycling information, see BLINK:
How to recycle at UCSD
February 25, 2005
Prepared by Shirley Higgins
