How can I get a Community College to put in recycling bins?
Posted on December 25, 2008
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I’m very interested in getting my community college to put in recycling bins throughout the building, but I’m not sure how to go about doing it. Would a recycling center be willing to give the college free recycling pick up, if not how much would it cost?
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Just get some garbage cans, place them all over the buildings, and spray-paint the word TRASH on it. Trust me, it all goes to the same place, the land-fill. Do you really believe that all of this “trash” is really recycled? Give me a break!
You could start calling garbage companies in your area and asking. Most get paid for what hey pick up in communities so they could probably do it for free. If not The cost is usually small. Also talk to dean or president of that collage and start a petition so your not empty handed when you go and talk to them. I think that your idea is a great one..hope more people think like you!
appeal to the dean to get them in long appeal for it though
donate them
Check to see if your college has an environmental committee or something like it. If not think about starting your own. You as a group can host fundraisers for your cause. Start by buying recycle bins, and making recycling posters though out the campus. Call your local recycling collection company and see if they have the resources to help you. Good luck!
ask the student council
ask your student body govt! I’m currently involved with our community college’s student body and we wrote a piece of legislation to get recycling cans out on our campus and we are starting to see More and more recycle cans near our soda vending machines
I also know that some companies will pay for your school’s old paper… my brother’s middle school got about $500 for recycle paper on his campus (they pay by the weight) so I’m am trying to get that program started at our school 
as for cost… that might vary depending where you live. some companies will offer free pick up, but for actual fees you’ll have to make some phone calls or look up websites… as a last resort you could ask your maintenance crew to drop them off and maybe even get some money for the school that way :o) good luck and thanks for trying to help save the Earth :o)
We started by creating a recycling/Environmental club. By doing this we were able to get the school on board with us better.
Then, from there we set goals our first goal was recycling bins. When we submitted the plan to the dean he was totally on board because we were organized about it.
We started with cans they are easy and we used the money from them to buy the bins for the other things we wanted to recycle.
Because, the school was such a big costumer we were able to get a local co. to pick up the recyclables for free.
Now the program has been going for 15yrs., and they recycle just about every thing from paper to cell phones.
Bring news media attention to the Issue. Most colleges don’t want bad publicity on things like that. Affects future enrollment if you know what I mean.
1, call the recycling company for information
2, show the result to the student government
3, show it to the school administration people
if it is free, then just do it
if it asks you to pay money, ask the school to pay for it, if they have the money
As part of the ASB during Spring ‘07 as the Director of Volunteer Services, I worked closely with the Director of Student Environment whose role was to get more students on campus to recycle and be aware of their environment. We talked to the Facilities Management Department of the college and they provided us with cardboard recycling bins for cans and for paper.
It is hard to get institutions like this to switch to recycling sometimes for financial reasons. No one likes to spend money revamping a system that is already in place.
A good way to try to make a difference is to organize a student group to deal with recycling and similar issues at your school. As a group, you can petition to be officially recognized by your college, and then you can work together to speak with college officials about your options.
If the college will not or can not fund a program, they may be interested in letting you do it yourself. This doesn’t mean you have to do everything alone. On the contrary, the student group can work together to raise awareness on campus, gain the support of local businesses and organizations (churches, charities, etc.), and even do some fundraising. Together it would not be all that difficult to raise money for at least a handful of bins, and you could make arrangements between the student group, businesses, local organizations, and college officials to arrange for emptying these recycling bins and either dropping bags off or having them picked up by a local recycling company.
It’s hard to say how onerous a task this will be without knowing the size of your school, but I formed a group in my last year of high school to collect recycling and take it to a local drop-off point. It was work, but it was very rewarding, and we all made new friends doing it. Good luck on the project!
first thing is to talk to the dean of the school and ask if there is a way of starting this in your collages, and if there is away to find a low cost to start this and make it happen.
it can’t hurt to talk and try it.
good luck you get a star from me
Institutions respond to demand from their customers. You and the other students are the college’s customers. You should type up a petition and circulate it among your friends and at the several environmental classes the school probably offers. If you speak to the professors, they will likely allow you to come into their classes and give a brief explanation and pass your petition around. You can gather hundreds of signatures this way. Once you have an impressive number of sigantures, you write a letter to the Dean or President and the Governing Board of the school and submit it with the petition. You tell the school newspaper what you are doing and ask them to publicize it - this puts even more pressure on the administration. I would be shocked if they ignore the petition and refuse to put out recycling bins.
Speak to your city sanitation department, and local government, they should be able to help. Keep up the good work.
contact the waste management for your city and they will be able to set you up with the bins,as far as cost one idea you can start is setting up a volunteer project and become a mini recycling center and your college can profit,UC DAVIS in california has done exactly that for a percentage the city picks up the bins and your school and the city will both profit monitarily and enviromently.