Waste Reduction

The Evergreen State College is taking steps, large and small, to minimize landfill waste. Through our composting and recycling programs, and student run programs like the Free Store, our campus is moving towards a zero waste philosophy by 2020.

To learn more about Recycling and Composting at Evergreen, how to participate and how it happens, visit a link below:

• Residential Compost Program - Organic Farm Compost and Commercial Compost
  
• Recycling & Recyclemania
• Stories of Campus Waste
• Free Store
• Resources

Watch this cartoon video for an overview of the importance of Waste Reduction at Evergreen.

Resources:

Downloadable Resouces

Trash Bash & Campus Waste Audit (pdf)

Master Recycle Sign (pdf)

Single Stream Recycle Sign (pdf)

Cardboard Recycle Sign (pdf)

Glass Recycle Sign (pdf)

RAD Compost Sign (pdf)

Web Resources

On-Campus

The Organic Farm Compost Facility

RecycleMania

TESC Recycling Services

Regional

Silver Springs Organics: Commercial Composting Facility

Thurston County HazoHouse - explains where and how to recycle toxic materials in Thurston County

Green Disk - Technotrash Can Information

Recycling/Composting

Earth 911: About Recycling: FAQ's, Videos & more

Grass Roots Recycling Network

Eco-Cycle

Recycling Super Guide

4 2 Explore: Recycling Resources Website

Wasted Food: A blog by author writing a book about wasted food

BioCycle Magazine Online: Compost & Recycling Science since 1960

E-Waste

Basal Action Network

General Waste

EPA Municiple Solid Waste; 2007 Municipal Solid Waste Report (pdf)

EPA Composting

Zero Waste Alliance

Zero Waste America

Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment

Center for EcoLiteracy - Systems Thinking Page

EIO-LCA: Free, Fast Easy Life Cycle Assessment

Books & Videos

"Waste and Want" by Susan Strasser

"Cradle to Cradle" by William McDonough & Michael Braungart

"The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard

60 minutes Video "The Electronic Wasteland"