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<p style="max-width:70em !important;">I get a lot of questions about recycling, so the following information will help. Please note this information does not include biohazardous/red bag waste, which should be handled per policy. Paper is handled the same at all UNMC/Nebraska Medicine locations, and we are working to standardize other recycling procedures to match the 42nd Street and Dewey Avenue campus. </p> | <p style="max-width:70em !important;">I get a lot of questions about recycling, so the following information will help. Please note this information does not include biohazardous/red bag waste, which should be handled per policy. Paper is handled the same at all UNMC/Nebraska Medicine locations, and we are working to standardize other recycling procedures to match the 42nd Street and Dewey Avenue campus. </p> | ||
===Blue Desk-Side Recycle Bins=== | ===Blue Desk-Side Recycle Bins=== | ||
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">By [https://wiki.unmc.edu/index.php/Retention_and_Destruction/Disposal_of_Private_and_Confidential_Information UNMC] and Nebraska Medicine policy, all paper must go into the desk-side recycle bin (usually blue) and is shredded prior to recycling. This bin should contain paper only. All types of paper, including newspaper, envelopes, post-its and so on, can be placed in this container, along with confidential/protected information. EVS employees are background-checked and trained to handle this waste -- departmental shredding is not necessary, and it wastes time, money and resources. </p> | <p style="max-width:70em !important;">By [https://wiki.unmc.edu/index.php/Retention_and_Destruction/Disposal_of_Private_and_Confidential_Information UNMC] and Nebraska Medicine policy, ''all'' paper must go into the desk-side recycle bin (usually blue) and is shredded prior to recycling. This bin should contain paper only. All types of paper, including newspaper, envelopes, post-its and so on, can be placed in this container, along with confidential/protected information. EVS employees are background-checked and trained to handle this waste -- departmental shredding is not necessary, and it wastes time, money and resources. </p> | ||
===Cardboard=== | |||
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Break down all cardboard boxes, place between the wall and your other containers. This includes all grades of cardboard -- frozen meal boxes to corrugated. No cardboard should be placed in blue (paper) bins.</p> | |||
Revision as of 14:00, August 8, 2016
When you think of taking sustainable actions, your first thought may be to recycle. A great step to take considering an average of 75 percent of household waste streams are recyclable. The med center's stream is a little different, but we still should have no problem meeting our recycling goal of 35 percent.
I get a lot of questions about recycling, so the following information will help. Please note this information does not include biohazardous/red bag waste, which should be handled per policy. Paper is handled the same at all UNMC/Nebraska Medicine locations, and we are working to standardize other recycling procedures to match the 42nd Street and Dewey Avenue campus.
Blue Desk-Side Recycle Bins
By UNMC and Nebraska Medicine policy, all paper must go into the desk-side recycle bin (usually blue) and is shredded prior to recycling. This bin should contain paper only. All types of paper, including newspaper, envelopes, post-its and so on, can be placed in this container, along with confidential/protected information. EVS employees are background-checked and trained to handle this waste -- departmental shredding is not necessary, and it wastes time, money and resources.
Cardboard
Break down all cardboard boxes, place between the wall and your other containers. This includes all grades of cardboard -- frozen meal boxes to corrugated. No cardboard should be placed in blue (paper) bins.