Academic & Administrative Buildings

Most buildings on campus have recycling services for office paper, newspapers, magazines, and corrugated cardboard. All of these papers go in the paper recycling bins. Look for bins in building hallways, office areas, and near copy machines. Please flatten all empty corrugated cardboard boxes and place them next to the paper recycling bin.

Campus buildings also have recycling bins for mixed container recycling. These bins are for glass bottles, jars, and ceramics; milk cartons/juice boxes; #1 and #2 plastic bottles; and steel cans, aluminum, and metals. These bins are generally found in lunchrooms, kitchenettes, lobbies, and other areas where cans, bottles, and plastic containers are found.

Building Services custodial staff empties all the paper and mixed container bins and transports the material to larger recycling dumpsters at the building loading docks. Call the Plant Operations Call Center at 647-2059 if you have questions about the emptying of bins inside your building.

Office-Recycling Program

Plant Building Services and Grounds & Waste Management have teamed up to provide new recycling opportunities to office occupants. Current trash cans will be converted to mixed paper recycling bins, with appropriate labeling. Each recycling bin will be outfitted with a "side-saddle" for trash.

Converting the trash can to a recycling bin is meant to provide more room for paper recycling, encouraging the practice. The smaller size of the sidesaddle is meant to discourage throwing away recyclables. This program only affects offices, cubicles, and work stations. Common areas, such as reception areas, lunchrooms, classrooms, conference rooms, and patient areas, will not have side-saddles.

There will also be changes to recycling outside of the offices. In addition to the current central recycling bins, Building Services will be placing new bins throughout participating buildings.

Only buildings serviced by Plant Building Services will be affected by this program. If your custodial services are not provided by Building Services, you may continue to contact UM Waste Management Services about at-desk boxes and the steel central recycling containers. For more information, please click here.

What Happens on the Dock?

There have been no changes to services provided on the dock. UM Waste Management Services continues to collect refuse and recyclables from these areas. Please note UM Waste Management Services only handles recyclables and refuse collections from the dock on, not inside of the buildings.

How Do I Request Additional Side-Saddles or Central Recycling Bins?

For additional recycling materials, please call the Plant Operations Call Center at 647-2059. For buildings not serviced by Plant Building Services, please email Recycle (get address) (38.107.191.117).

Medical School Area

Most buildings of the UM Medical School are included in the campus-recycling program. These include:

• Buhl Bldg
• Kresge I and II and III
• Kresge Hearing
• Lloyd Lab
• Med Sci I and II
• Med Sci Research Bldgs I and II and III
• Mental Health Research Institute
• Taubman Medical Library
• Upjohn Center
• Victor Vaughan
• 300 North Ingalls (Floors 9, 10, 11 only)
• 400 North Ingalls

In these buildings, staff and visitors will find recycling bins for in hallways and office areas. Cardboard boxes should be emptied and flattened, then placed next to recycling bins. This indicates to Building Services staff that the cardboard is intended to be recycled.

Additionally, some areas have bins for cans and bottles. Staff and visitors are asked to recycle glass bottles from food and beverages only. Containers that once held chemicals require special handling before recycling. Call Waste Management Services at 763-5539 for specific instructions.

All recyclable materials from the Medical School complex are brought to the paper recycling dumpster and mixed containers cart located at Dock 2 by Building Services custodial staff. Building occupants are not given access to this dock area because of contamination problems encountered at the Medical School in the past. Building occupants are reminded not to put biohazardous wastes, "sharps", pyrex, laboratory glassware, and other waste in the recycling receptacles.

Paper recycling dumpsters and containers carts are also located at Kresge III, Victor Vaughn, MHRI, and 300 and 400 North Ingalls. Building staff have access to these.

UM Hospitals

For information about waste handling and recycling services for the University of Michigan Hospitals, including Main, Mott, Taubman Center, and affiliated units, call 936-5167 or visit the web page for University of Michigan Hospital Facilities.

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