Service

Service Areas
Recycling service areas are grouped under three headings: core University academic and office buildings; University auxiliaries; and University Housing.

University academic and office buildings are viewed as a distinct operational/service area by Campus Recycling with service crews scheduled solely for these areas. At the University of Oregon, the correlation of entire buildings with individual departments, colleges, or other academic entities is the exception rather than the rule: most buildings are utilized by several academic and/or office units. Consequently, charging individual budget units is not feasible. Buildings housing core academic and office units are, therefore, serviced under a general funding structure designed to cover the costs of services to these areas.

University Auxiliaries include a small number of campus entities which are not viewed as core academic or office areas. Typically, these represent services or programs considered to be outside of the core academic and business functions of the University (such as research grant-funded programs) and, outside of the core funding structure for basic services. Examples include the Erb Memorial Student Union, Athletics, and several off-campus buildings (which are not owned by the University of Oregon but are leased and utilized by University auxiliaries. In general, these areas are serviced in the same way as the core academic and office areas. The primary distinction for these areas is fiscal: University auxiliaries generally pay for recycling services to their areas or use their existing contracted custodial and garbage service providers for recycling services (which they also arrange and pay for).

University Housing represents the most unique service area for Campus Recycling. It is comprised of a variety of residential housing units in numerous locations. University Housing includes: five on-campus residence hall complexes (Hamilton, Walton, Bean, Earl and Carson); two off-campus residence halls (Riley and the University Inn); three off-campus apartment complexes (Westmoreland, Spencer View and the Agate Street Apartments); and several dozen single-family dwellings in a an area contiguous to campus (the East Campus Housing area). All residence halls include some type of food service facilities. University Housing is, therefore, treated as a distinct entity with its own service crews, its own service procedures, and a contributive funding agreement.

Please see the On Campus Services section of the web site for more information.

Service Sites

Campus Recycling currently has approximately 1540 paper containers and 450 bottle/can receptacles sited in 186 sites in office and academic areas.

Sites located in interior offices, office suites, and interior areas not requiring fire-rated containers are supplied with a 4-part, color-coded Bagit system paper collection setup . Sites located in halls, public spaces, and other interior areas requiring fire-rated containers are supplied with a 4-part, 20-gallon galvanized can paper collection setup All sites are also supplied with a 20-gallon galvanized can with waterproof liner for beverage containers. All cans are supplied with tight-fitting lids, and all containers, Bagit bags and cans are clearly labeled for material type.

Outdoor Public Sites
Campus Recycling has sited 19 outdoor Public Drop-Off (PDO) sites in high-traffic areas around campus. Such sites are intended to draw recycling from the waste stream generated by students and the campus community walking through campus. These are sited in high-traffic areas along major campus arteries and gathering places. Since the user groups targeted by PDO's are typically not recycling office papers, sorts are concentrated upon low grades of paper and the various beverage containers.

Sites are equipped with enclosed PDO containers as capital funds become available through Facilities Services and donations, and equipment varies by site. As Campus Recycling has evolved, different styles of PDO containers have been purchased. However, given the financial investment represented by such equipment, older units are retained and placed in less-traveled areas.

Campus Recycling currently has 3 different styles of PDO's in use: a circular, concrete unit with receptacle inserts for a 3-part sort (these older units have been grouped in a few locations); De Wald units with "stalls" for fiber barrel inserts; and De Wald units with square deposition openings and plastic tub inserts arranged in double-stacked tiers. The last of these styles is the option chosen by Campus Recycling for all future PDO purchases. Since equipment varies, the sort at individual PDO's also varies from a 2-part sort (Bottles/Cans and Newspapers) to a 6-part sort (Glass, Metal, Plastic, Deposits, Low Grade Paper and Newspaper).

Site Maps The locations of all sites in all areas are recorded on maps for use in servicing each area of the campus community (including all building interiors, campus grounds, and off-campus areas). Map "blanks" are obtained from University Planning (now available electronically on-line) and the exact locations of sites are marked with colored dots. Completed maps are then laminated in-house and stored in the program offices which serve as the work sites for the various crews (the Trailer for Housing and Van crews; the Warehouse for Paper crews; and the EMU office for the EMU, Lawrence and Walking B/C recyclers). As sites are added to or removed from the collection site system, maps are updated to reflect the changes.

Service Logistics
The Campus Recycling Program has focused its energies on individual responsibility. This is modeled in the effort to create a maximum return on paper markets through high grade sorts at individual sites. Presort categories and collection services vary by location and service entity (see "Service Areas" above). Additional sorting and preparation for final recycling is performed by recycling crews either on route or at the central processing facility. All materials are collected from centralized collection sites by Campus Recycling student crews.

Academic and Office Areas
Paper is collected in office and academic areas as a 4-part sort comprised of: White Ledger, Colored/Office Pack, Low Grade and Newsprint. Cardboard desk side containers allow office workers and faculty to sort paper into the first 3 of these categories at the work-site, with newspapers separated out as seen fit by individual staff. The transfer of the contents of desk side containers to central office or public collection sites is the responsibility of the staff. Large central office areas, work/copier rooms, and other areas not requiring fire-rated containers are provided with a 4-part Bagit collection system. All hallways and other areas requiring fire-rated containers are provided with a 4-part galvanized can collection system (see "Equipment" below). Departments and construction projects contributing funding for recycling equipment may substitute Bagit Steel Enclosures for standard collection cans in aesthetically-sensitive fire-rated areas at their own expense (see "Equipment" below).

Special needs are handled on an on-call basis. Regularly-occurring special needs areas may also be provided with separate containers of either type for the collection of barred computer paper, book stock, and other paper types as requested if sufficient quantities warrant their separate collection. Occasional or unusually large flows of materials from academic and office areas such as occurs during office clean-outs and records purging are collected in fiber barrels delivered and retrieved at the request of the customer.

All paper is collected from office and academic areas by designated "Paper" crews utilizing handtrucks loaded with large fiber collection barrels and smaller stackable cans and tubs to maintain a 4-part sort. All materials are removed to service vans loaded with additional fiber barrels for secondary collection and transportation to the central sorting facility (see "Sorting" below). A 4-part sort is maintained at all times during the collection process.

Bottles and cans are collected at centralized office, hallway and public sites as a single-stream material (no special desk-side provisions are made for these materials). Deposit and non-deposit cans, plastic bottles and glass containers are collected in either Bagit containers or galvanized cans marked "Bottles and Cans Only" (B/C's) and are sorted separately after collection (see "Sorting" below).

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