Welcome to Recycling at Harvey Mudd College!

The Harvey Mudd College Recycling Program aims to promote the recycling of materials, reduce waste on campus, and promote a clean and environmentally conscious campus. We hope this website will not only serve as an information source for the college community, but that it will help foster awareness and interest in recycling.

Questions, comments, and suggestions can be directed to the Facilities & Maintenance Office, located in the Platt Campus Center basement. Please do not hesitate to call us at (909) 621-8226. 

Where & What We Recycle  |  Miscellaneous Recycling  |  Battery Recycling 
E-Waste Recycling  |  E-Waste Pick up Form

Located at convenient locations throughout the Harvey Mudd campus, blue recycling containers can be found for recycling cans, bottles and papers. Perishables and liquids should not be placed in these bins. This recyclable waste is collected by the Facilities & Maintenance office and forwarded onto the City of Claremont for processing.

For a list of items that are able to be recycled in these containers please see the Recycling List below. 

Residence Halls

Within the dorms, students have a few options for recycling: 

• Large dorm recycling containers - Each dorm on campus has a large recycling container, located outside on the perimeter of the dorm or in the dorm courtyard.  These containers are managed directly by the individual dorms, who collect and exchange their own recycling, which helps raise dorm funds.
  
  If you have questions about your dorm's recycling program and what can or cannot be recycled please contact your dorm's Recycling Officer or Dorm President.  If your dorm does not have  a large container and would like one please contact your Dorm President.

• Individual room/suite recycling bins - A number of rooms and suites across campus, including all suites in Sontag and South, have their own recycling bins which are managed by the Facilities & Maintenance Office.  If your room/suite does not have a recycling bin and would like one please notify F&M at facilities@hmc.edu. 

NOTE: Items (e.g. cans and bottles) that are placed in these bins will not be removed or sorted, such as the large dorm recycling containers mentioned above.

This recyclable waste goes directly to the City of Claremont for processing. These materials do not have to be sorted but should be rinsed thoroughly, if necessary. Please see the Recycling List below regarding what can be recycled in these bins:

Newspapers, Magazines & Mixed Paper	Cardboard, Boxes, etc.
Junk mail	Cereal boxes
Telephone books	Tissue boxes
Catalogs	Food boxes
Computer paper	Milk cartons
Envelopes	Juice boxes
Copy paper	Soda/beer cartons
wrapping paper	Egg cartons (paper fiber)
Brochures	Paper bags
Crayon drawings	Cardboard boxes
	Gift boxes

***PLEASE RINSE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS BEFORE RECYCLING THEM***

Glass Bottles/Jars	Plastic Bottles, Jugs & Jars	Aluminum & Metal Cans
Juice bottles	Plastic water bottles	Aluminum soda cans
Beer bottles	Plastic soda bottles	Aluminum beer cans
Wine bottles	Plastic milk jugs	Fruit cans
Liquor bottles	Plastic laundry jugs	Vegetable cans
Baby food jars	Shampoo bottles	Pet food cans
Condiment jars	Lotion bottles	Juice cans
Jam jars	Food bottles	Soup cans
Jelly jars	Condiment bottles	Sauce cans
Assorted food jars	Motor oil containers	Assorted food cans
Salad dressing bottles	Vegetable oil bottles

Miscellaneous Recycling

Battery Recycling

Many types of batteries contain hazardous metals which must be disposed of properly to avoid landfill and ground water contamination.

Each dorm has a battery collection bucket.  These can be found in the Case, Linde, East and Sontag main dorm lounges, South Proctor suite, outside the North Proctor room, and in the Atwood and West dorm laundry rooms.  Academic and Administrative departments may bring their batteries to F&M for recycling.  

These containers can be used to recycle various types of dry cell batteries including alkaline, nickel, cadmium, nickel metal hydride, iron, zinc carbon and silver as well as AA, AAA, C, D and 9-volt batteries.

Please notify Facilities & Maintenance when your dorm's container is nearly full and ready for a pick up.

E-Waste Recycling

E-Waste, which is electronics and appliances, such as PCs, cell phones and microwaves, is regulated waste and must not be discarded in the trash.  Please see the list below for a breakdown of acceptable E-Waste.

To recycle your E-Waste, please complete the following two steps:

1. Attach this form to the item(s) you'd like picked up for recycling OR drop off the item at the Facilities & Maintenance Office.
2. Complete a work order to have item(s) picked up by your Building Attendant.

Acceptable E-Waste for Recycling:

Audio & Video Equipment	Computer Systems & Accessories	Office Equipment	Handheld Devices
Camcorders	CD-ROM/DVD drives	Fax machines	Cell phones and  PDAs
Cameras	Cables & wires	Printers and  scanners	Pagers
Projection TVs	CPUs	Photocopiers	Two-way radios
Game systems	Keyboards	Telephones
Radios	Laptops	Typewriters
Stereos	Mice
Tape players	Monitors
DVD players	Routers
Televisions	Servers
VCRs	Software
	Speakers
	UPS systems

Not Acceptable for E-Waste:

• Contaminated equipment of any type
• Cracked or broken CRT monitors
• Hair dryers
• Hot curlers
• Overhead projectors
• Toner cartridges
• Smoke detectors
• Hazardous equipment of any type
• Ballasts, light bulb tubes, x-ray equipment, lab equipment, blood or bio waste equipment