• Guidelines and Policies
• Recycling
• Compost
• Electronics
• Students
• SOS Store has a new name - Free-Use
• Purchasing
• Toner
• Community

Guidelines and Policies

BERD’s solid waste program is designed to decrease the amount of solid waste we generate. To reduce garbage before it is created we use source reduction – we encourage our community to bring less to campus and buy less while they are here.
	We have a free store on campus to help students, faculty and staff re-use goods that have more life. We also collect items that can have more life but that require remote refurbishing, such as our toner program.  In MoveOut 2008 students fed Barry the Blue Bin instead of putting things in the garbage - we save over 100 bags to help stock FreeUse.
As a last resort, we recycle as the market allows. How to Recycle in the Residence Halls How to Recycle in On Campus Faculty and Staff Homes
For waste disposal information for special items, click on “Hazardous Materials”

Recyclemania 2008 is over. 400 schools competed.

Bard is 40th in the nation with a 26% recycling rate (the top ten recycle 40% of their trash). Congratulations to Kalamazoo with a 59% recycling rate.

Other Bard standings:
46th: 23 pounds recyclables generated per person over 10 weeks.
69th: 89 pounds trash per person

2nd place in food waste: 33.41 pounds food waste per person.
Winner was Mills College (34.15). We edged out Middlebury (31.23)

9th: 14 pounds cardboard
30th: 4 pounds bottles & cans
87th: 5.22 pounds paper

63,279 pounds recyclables over 10 weeks

Next year let's hit 30%!

Link to B&G Policy page

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Hazmats