This week’s Quick Tip!

How do you garden for wildlife? In 5 easy steps.

1. Provide food sources with plants that provide nuts, berries, or nectar, or provide a feeder.
2. Provide water with a pond, birdbath, or shallow dish.
3. Provide cover with a hollow log, rock pile, dense shrubs, or roosting box.
4. Provide places to raise young such as a water garden, pond, or nesting box.
5. Practice sustainable gardening by mulching, composting, or reducing your lawn area.

Recycling Guidelines

Academic/Office Buildings | Residence Halls

The quality of the recycling material is as important as the quantity!

Administrative Offices & Academic Buildings

All Clean Paper

Blue Bins: Located in Offices and Classrooms

All types of white/colored paper: copier, printer, computer, fax, junk mail, pamphlets
All types of envelopes: white, brown, including ones with plastic windows – No Tyvek or padded mailers, please!
Printer/copier paper wrappers, manila folders, carbonless forms
Books: paperback and hardcover, including the covers
Newsprint; Magazines, catalogs, brochures
No napkins, paper cups/plates, or other soiled items, please!
Phone Book Collection will be announced.

All Cardboard & Paperboard

Next to Blue Bins: Located in Offices and Classrooms

Corrugated cardboard and boxes – Flatten
Paperboard boxes: cereal, tissue, etc. – Discard plastic liners and flatten

All Clean Recyclable Containers

Labeled Containers or next to Blue Bins: Located in Office and Classroom Buildings

Metal Cans: Beverage, food, aerosol, etc.
- Rinse out, labels OK!
Glass Bottles & Jars: Beverage, food, etc.
- Discard caps, rinse out, labels OK!
- No bulbs or broken glass, please!
Plastic: Bottles, yogurt tubs, microwave food containers, takeout bowls, clamshell boxes, etc.
- Discard caps, rinse out!
- No reusable containers, please!
Gable-top cartons and drink-boxes: milk, juice, etc.
- Rinse out, discard straws!
No paint, pesticides, solvents, please!

Residence Halls

All Clean Paper

Beige, Wood-Grain Containers/Blue Bins: Located in Lounges/Classrooms

All types of white/colored paper: copier, printer, computer, fax, junk mail, pamphlets
All types of envelopes: white, brown, including ones with plastic windows –No Tyvek or padded mailers, please!
Printer/copier paper wrappers, manila folders, carbonless forms
Books: paperback and hardcover, including the covers
Newsprint; Magazines, catalogs, brochures
No napkins, paper cups/plates, or other soiled items, please!

All Cardboard & Paperboard

Green, Yellow Dumpsters with slits in sides: Located Outside Buildings

Corrugated cardboard and boxes – Flatten
Paperboard boxes: cereal, tissue, etc. – Discard plastic liners and flatten

All Clean Recyclable Containers

Labeled Containers: Located on all Residence Hall Floors and in Kitchens

Metal Cans: Beverage, food, aerosol, etc.
- Rinse out, labels OK!
Glass Bottles & Jars: Beverage, food, etc.
- Discard caps, rinse out, labels OK!
- No bulbs or broken glass, please!
Plastic: Bottles, yogurt tubs, microwave food containers, takeout bowls, clamshell boxes, etc.
- Discard caps, rinse out!
- No reusable containers, please!
Plastic Laundry Detergent and Gallon Milk Containers
- Discard caps, rinse out, flatten, and place in large totes in laundry rooms.
Gable-top cartons and drink-boxes: milk, juice, etc.
- Rinse out, discard straws!
No paint, pesticides, solvents, please!

Household Batteries

Library Front Desk, Facilities Office, Fire Marshal’s Office (Located at Haffey Security Desk)

Alkaline, one-time-use and rechargeable, batteries for personal/household use.
Size D and smaller only!

Housekeeping will empty recycling bins when full.

If you have questions or concerns, please call Facilities, x8256; email: lwernert@sjfc.edu.
To reduce Junk Mail, call 800-353-0809.