Put corrugated cardboard in hallway after collapsing

Problem: Almost everything you buy comes in a box, sometimes two nested boxes. They may be thrown in with regular trash while they are readily recyclable or reusable.

Solution: UCSB has green recycling dumpsters for cardboard that are located behind each building. Cardboard is picked up by custodians who throw it in the recycling dumpster.

Cost: There is little labor impact on this practice because we have a good system of dumpsters. Keeping a box razor handy will make it easy for you to collapse the boxes.

Benefit: At UCSB over 95 tons of cardboard was diverted from being sent to landfill in 2006 alone.