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Fort Lewis College Recycling

Collected only at designated sites
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Plastics

 Rinsed:

Bottle Shaped Only

#1 PETE, #2 HOPE

Please Remove Lids 

 Lids, Bags, Tub Containers, Styrofoam, and any containers marked: #3,4,5,6, or 7. 
Glass

 Rinsed:

Brown Bottles Only

Clear, Green, Blue, or odd colored Glass of any type.

Please Remove Lids

  Lids, light bulbs.
Metal

 Rinsed:

Aluminum soda cans, steel or tin cans, and metal lids from glass conatiners.

  Industrial steel, foil, pie pans, other metals.
 Mixed Paper

  • Newspaper - anything that comes in the newspaper (except neon or dark colored fliers).
  • Office Paper - all office paper (white and pastel), fax, copier, and laser paper, letterhead, (light colored) Post-It notes, envelopes (windows o.k.), greenbar, receipts, note cards, (buff colored) manila folders, lables(in small quantities, carbonless duplicate forms(NCR), shredded paper.
  • Other - White paper bags, paperback books without covers (quarter inch sections), magazines, glossy paper, sorted junk mail, stamps, pamphlets, advertisements, booklets.  Staples are okay.
 Telephone books, neon or dark colored paper, carbon paper, Tyvek envelopes(Fed Ex type), hanging file folders non-paper junk mail (credit cards, compact disks, stickers), hard bound books, waxy paper, blueprints, gift wrap, photos, paper towels, cups or plates, paper clips, kraft paper (see cardboard), gold manila envelopes, gum and candy wrappers.
Cardboard
Flattened:

Corrugated boxes (two layers of cardboard with a wavey layer in the middle), pizza boxes which are not saturated in grease, kraft paper (brown paper bags, heavy envelopes, etc.).

 Single layered, waxy or greasy, fiberboard (cereal or shoeboxes), paper cups, dark colored envelopes and packaging material. 
 

 Collected ONLY at the Environmental Center (202 CUB)

 

Envelopes

 All kinds of envelopes and packaging materials that can be reused.  Anything that is not reusable. 
Laser Jet Cartridges
 Most cartridges from printers and copy machines. Fax machine and letter machine cartridges.
Inkjet Cartridges

All Hewlett Packard, some Apple, Cannon, Lexmark, Panasonic, Xerox, Compaq, and Lanier.  (Complete list at the EC)   Epson cartridges