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What to Recycle at NSU

Did You Know?

Recycling 100 lbs. or a 36 inch stack of newspaper saves...

  • 73 kilowatt hours of electricity
  • About 14% of the average residential electric bill
  • Enough to light a 100-watt bulb more than 700 hours
  • 2 gallons of gasoline

Recycling 100 lbs. of glass...

  • Saves 29 kilowatt hours of electricity
  • Lights a 100-watt bulb for 290 hours
  • Plays a radio 3 hours a day for 4 months

Recycling 1 plastic bottle...

  • Powers a computer for 25 minutes

Recycling 1 ton of mixed paper saves...

  • 17 trees
  • 4200 kilowatt hours of electricity

Recycling 1 lb. or 26 aluminum cans…

  • Saves ¾ gallon of gasoline
  • Lights a 100 watt bulb for 290 hours
  • Plays a radio for 3 hours a day for 4 months

Recycling Poll

Please find below a list of recyclable products which you can recycle at NSU to help reduce our overall footprint.

Cans

  • Aluminum Cans
  • Soup Cans
  • Tuna Fish Cans
  • Coffee Cans
  • Empty Aerosol Cans

Plastics

  • Plastic bottles and cups (#1 and #2 symbols on the bottom)
  • Grocery Bags

Glass

  • Glass Bottles
  • Glass Jars (remove tops)

Cardboard

  • Corrugated Cardboard (Empty, flatten, and place beside containers)
  • Pizza Boxes

Printer Cartridges

  • Inkjet cartridges
  • Toner Cartridges

Mixed Paper

  • Computer paper
  • White Paper
  • Colored Paper
  • Shredded Paper (bagged)
  • "Post-It" Notes
  • Newspaper
  • Magazines
  • Blueprints
  • Catalogs
  • Junk Mail
  • Letter or Legal Envelopes
  • Window Envelopes
  • File Folders
  • Phone Books
  • NCR Forms
  • Cereal Boxes
  • Cracker Boxes
  • Soda Cartons
  • Brown Paper Bags
  • Chip Board
  • Insulating Cup Sleeves (Like Starbucks)
  • High Gloss Paper
  • Astro Bright Colored Paper
  • Spiral Notebooks
  • Hard Bound Books
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