On Campus Recycling
With over 2000 people on campus Wartburg produces a lot of waste, however that means there is a huge potential for waste reduction through recycling. The College partners with the City of Waverly and City Carton to recycle:
White paper
Colored paper
Magazines
Glossy paper
Newspaper
Cardboard
Plastics (#1-7)
Glass (clear)
Tin cans
Aluminum
Redemption (Pop/alcohol bottles and cans)
All items to be recycled need to be clean of all trash or food debris, this includes grease and oil. Staples in paper are okay.
Where to Recycle
Academic & Business Buildings
You will find recycling stations on nearly every floor in each building across campus. The stations may look a little different from building to building but they are readily available. When in doubt please look for the best solution instead of throwing away what could be recycled.
Residence Hall Recycling
There are recycling stations accessible to every residence hall on Wartburg’s campus. By recycling you are helping the college control waste disposal costs and save money. In Grossman and Löhe the recycling stations are rooms on each floor, in The Residence they are outside the lounge, while in all other halls they are located outside near the dumpsters. Click here for a map of residence hall recycling station locations.
Did you know Iowa has a Bottle Bill Law?
This means when you buy alcohol or carbonated drinks, such as soda, you are charged a 5 cent deposit per container. You get the deposit back by returning the empty container to the store it was purchased or a redemption center. The law is intended to decrease landfill waste so when the cans are returned the store is required by law to recycle them, they can not go to a landfill.
Iowa is one of 11 states with a bottle bill law in effect, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
When you put your empty cans and bottles into a redeemable container on campus the money collected helps support student organizations through Cans for a Cause.
What about the “other” stuff?
Some items are not accepted in recycling bins around campus, but they can still be recycled in the Waverly area. The list below provides locations for recycling additional items that either reuse the recycled product, or use the product’s materials:
- Ink cartridges: Cartridges can be dropped at the Copy Center. The Copy Center is located south of the Information desk in the Saemann Student Center. Ask your retail store if they will refill ink cartridges. Often this is advertised at a cheaper price where available, and you must have a receipt of purchase of your ink cartridges.
- Electronics: Goodwill will accept monitors, computers, printers, scanners, hard drives, keyboards, mice, speakers, cards & cables, ink & toner cartridges, software, Xbox, Zune, Microsoft-branded webcams, regardless of missing components as part of the Dell reconnect program. Goodwill in Waverly is located at 400 Technology Place Southwest, off of highway 218. Keep an eye out for special collections throughout the year. Goodwill partners with Dell ReConnect whose electronics disposition policy now exceeds requirements of the Basel Convention, which bans the export of certain electronic waste based on its material or chemical composition.
- CFLs: Keep an eye for collection events on Sustainability at Wartburg College’s facebook page, as well as advertised through email.
- Cell Phones: Miller True Value accepts these through the call2recycle program. Miller True Value is located at 1201 4th St SW in Waverly.
- Rechargeable batteries: Miller True Value accepts these through the call2recycle program. Miller True Value is located at 1201 4th St SW in Waverly.
- Non-rechargeable batteries, Car batteries, Household Hazardous Materials: This can be taken by Bremer county residents to Bremer County Regional Collection Center 2049 200th Street Waverly, IA 50677.
Not from Waverly and want to learn where to recycle at home? Visit www.earth911.com for a national database of recycling.
