Sorting your waste on CDPHE campus
Recycling tips
- All recycling should be empty, free of food, and mostly clean.
- Dirty, wet, or greasy cardboard or paper should be placed in the landfill bins.
- Recyclable items should be roughly the size of your palm or larger, anything smaller should be placed in the landfill.
- When in doubt, throw it out!
Recycling metals
- Aluminum cans and foil (crumpled in a ball the size of a fist or larger), pie tins.
- Steel cans i.e. tuna cans, beans, soup, etc.
- Metal lids larger than the palm of your hand.
Recycling glass
- Glass bottles, jars.
- Remove metal lids.
Recycling paper
- Office paper, newspapers, magazines, envelopes with windows.
- Use shred boxes near print stations or CORE rooms that contain sensitive information. This shredded paper can be recycled separately through their vendor.
- Paper coffee cups and paper coffee cup sleeves.
- Milk cartons and aseptic/tetra pak containers (chicken broth, rice milk, etc).
Recycling cardboard and paperboard
- Cereal boxes, clean pizza boxes.
- Flatten all cardboard and paperboard boxes.
Recycling plastic: bottles, jugs, jars, tubs and containers
- Do not flatten.
- Attach plastic screw tops back on the container.
Compost
- Food scraps:
- vegetable and fruit scraps (no produce stickers).
- coffee grounds.
- meat.
- cheese.
- bread.
- bones.
- fruit pits.
- egg shells.
- Yard and plant trimmings i.e. flower bouquets.
- Paper towels (those provided in CDPHE bathrooms and breakrooms).
- Find more guidance from scraps.com.
- When in doubt, throw it out (in landfill bins)!
Landfill
- Any organics like food or yard scraps when compost is not available.
- Food service ware (compostable or otherwise):
- plates.
- bowls.
- silverware.
- cups.
- straws.
- dressing containers.
- coffee cup lids.
- Greasy pizza boxes.
- Paper towels, napkins, coffee filters, etc.
- Wipes, baby wipes.
- Chewing gum.
- Flexible plastics:
- plastic bags wrappers, chip bags, etc.
- bubble wrap or shipping pouches.
- Other miscellaneous plastics:
- #7 PLA “compostable” plastics.
- packing peanuts.
- Styrofoam, expanded polystyrene.
- Shredded paper.
- Paper ream wrappers.
Hard-to-recycle special bins
- Battery boxes:
- Located in all CORE rooms.
- Be sure to tape terminals on required batteries and bag any corroded batteries separately.
- Writing instruments:
- Located in all CORE rooms.
- Collection of pens and markers.