Recycling

Recycling Guidelines

If you are a student looking to recycle on campus, you can deposit the material below into one of our LSU Campus Green Recycling bins, blue sidewalk recycling container, or blue indoor recycling bin:

Plastic (#1, 2, 5)

 Bottles, Jugs, Containers, etc.

Cardboard

 Corrugated Cardboard, Box Board, Frozen Food Packaging, Cereal Boxes, etc.

Mixed Paper

 Newspaper, Magazines, Office Paper, etc.

Aluminum/Steel/Tin Cans     

 Can, Containers, Foil, Pie Pans, etc.

Glass

 Bottles, Drinking Containers, Jars

 

student carrying glass recycling bin

 

Specialized Recycling

BATTERIES

Used alkaline or rechargeable batteries can be recycled in the following centralized locations on campus. (Lead-acid batteries should be picked up by Environmental Health & Safety - 225-578-5640)

  • Student Union – Information Center
  • Middleton Library – Room 126
  • UREC – Admin. Copy Room
  • Patrick F. Taylor – Atrium
  • Energy, Coast & Environment – First Floor Lobby
  • Frey Computing Services – 2nd Floor Admin. Area
  • Vet School – Various Locations
  • U-STORES – Lobby
  • Renewable Natural Resources – Lobby
  • Life Sciences Building - outside of Rm. 104
  • Life Sciences Annex
  • Digital Media Center - Lobby
  • Animal Science (Dalrymple)
  • Property Mgt (River Rd. Annex)

TONERS & INK CARTRIDGES

Desk-sized and larger printer toner and ink cartridges can be recycled at University Stores, or by calling the Recycling Office at 578-7968.

WOOD/PALLETS

Vegetative debris and loose wood pieces may be brought to the Landscape Services roll-off lot and placed in the 30-yard roll-off container designated for the appropriate size of the vegetative debris.  The roll-offs are separated into larger piece of debris (large branches, stumps, and logs), and smaller vegetative waste (leaves, grass, tiny branches), all of which gets reused as mulch.

Pallets can be picked up by the Recycling Office by calling 578-7968.

SCRAP METAL

Scrap metal may be brought to the Landscape Services roll-off lot and placed in the 30-yard roll-off container designated for scrap metal.  This must be PURE scrap metal, and any equipment must have the fuel/oil completely drained out of it.

E-WASTE

All electronics (including computers, cell phones, etc.) issued by LSU must be returned to Property Management when it is no longer needed (Property Management 578-6921).

LSU partners once per semester with the CACRC and LSU Property Management to hold an E-Waste recycling event for faculty and staff to bring electronic items to be given to Property Management and then recycled/reused in future.

Please check our social media periodically or contact our office (578-7968) for information on the next E-Waste collection event.

 

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