RECYCLING INFO: Campus Indoor
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PAPER

YES

NO

 

Office Pack
The recycling industry's word for all recyclable paper.
This includes:

  • White paper- bond, typing, copier, index cards
  • Colored paper- bond, typing, copier, index card
  • Fax Paper
  • Envelopes
  • Direct mailings (unsolicited mail sent to prospective customers through the mail)
  • Manila and bleached file folders
  • Heavily printed coated white paper
  • Shredded paper (link with FAQ section about shredded paper)

This also includes materials to be removed later in the process:

  • Metal Fasteners
  • Plastic Tabs
  • Wire Spirals
  • Rubber bands
  • Paper clips
  • Staples
  • Press-apply labels, often called self-adhesives
  • Plastic spirals

 

  • Newspapers or inserts
  • Goldenrod colored papers
    1
  • Deep tone, fluorescent papers
    2
  • Unbleached papers
  • Carbon paper
  • Glossy magazines and catalogs
  • Beverage labels and other wet strength papers
  • Textbooks
  • Phonebooks
  • Plastic coated papers
  • Food/candy wrappers
Locations
Please use the large green containers are located all around campus classrooms, especially in the library and main office areas. DO NOT throw office pack into outdoor recycling clusters.
Faculty and staff have "blue clip-on" containers at each desk. When the container is full, transport the office pack to the larger green containers at your nearest location. The custodial department will clear the green containers.

To request blue clip-on or office pack containers for your department please contact:
A.S. Recycling: (805) 893-7765
UCSB Facilities Management:
Mary Ann Hopkins: (805) 893-2661 x2302
(have pic of green office pack, blue clip-on, and bertha)

 

Important of Separation


By separating office pack from other paper products such as newspaper, magazines or bound-books, we capture a "clean-stream" of paper that can be recycled directly into new office paper. Mixing paper types degrade the quality of the recycled paper product. The lower-grade product can be converted into paperboard.

The story is the same for newspaper. By capturing an "all-newspaper" product as done in the outdoor recycling clusters around campus, the newsprint can then be recycled into new newsprint. When mixed with other paper products the recycling potential is much more limited.