Green your dorm life Using these easy tips!

1. Green your dorm life Using these easy tips! Lighten your environmental footprint with these simple steps from the Resource and Environmental Management Program (REMP). Not only are they better for the planet, but they’ll benefit your wallet and your wellbeing, too! Contact us: ithaca.edu/remp irecycle@ithaca.edu (607) 274-1777 “Like” us on Facebook: facebook.com/icremp

2. Reduce How much you buy and use Reducing your impact on the environment is the first, and maybe the most important, of the 4 Rs. Buy products with less packaging, and use your own containers to buy food in bulk. Ditch unhealthy, packaged food for whole foods, and don’t take more food than you will eat in the dining halls. Use a cloth towel instead of paper towels. Use both sides of paper when printing. Don’t let advertising manipulate you. Before every purchase, ask yourself, “Do I really need this?” Unplug electronics when you’re not using them. Most still use energy even when switched off. Turn off the lights when you’re the last one to leave a room. Take shorter showers. Walk, run, ride a bike, take the bus, or carpool. Only do full loads of laundry, and use cold water when you do. Use compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs instead of incandescents (they use 75% less energy).

3. Reuse What you can Keep waste out of landfills and reduce demand for resources and energy needed to manufacture and transport new goods around the globe. • Avoid disposables! Use a reusable water bottle, coffee mug, shopping bags, plates and utensils, everything! • During move-out in the spring, be sure to drop off whatever you don’t want to take home in the TIOLI bins that will be set out in the lounge of each dorm… and take whatever you want! • Other places to find great secondhand items: • • Finger Lakes ReUse • ShareTompkins • • Trader K’s • Salvation Army • • Mimi’s Attic • Yard sales • • Swidjit (swidjit.com/ithaca) • Craigslist • • Ithaca FreeCycle

4. OSCAR (Office Supply Collection and Reuse) OSCAR is a free program that allows you to donate unwanted but useful office supplies for others to use. Where: Phillips Hall 196 (by Career Services) When: Hours are on the REMP website: ithaca.edu/remp. TIOLI (Take It Or Leave It) TIOLI is a free program designed to reduce waste generated on campus going to the landfill and promote reuse. Donate gently used items such as clothing, furnishings, kitchen supplies, and more to TIOLI. Before you buy something new, see if we have it! Inventory is always changing and depends on donations from people like you! During move-out in the spring, bins will be put in the lounge of each dorm—be sure to drop off whatever you don’t want to take home… and take whatever you want! Where: The TIOLI room is in Clarke Hall (a sign at the main entrance will have a number to call to let you in). When: Hours are on the REMP website: ithaca.edu/remp.

5. Recycle Whatever is left Single stream recycling means you can now mix recyclable paper, glass, metal, and plastic containers in one bin – no sorting necessary! What’s accepted: What’s not accepted:

6. E-waste recycling: • E-waste can be dropped off in bins in the following locations: • Residence hall Area Offices • Garden 27 mail room • Circles Community Center mail room • The Take It Or Leave It (TIOLI) room in Clarke Hall • To have large items picked up, submit an on-line service request through the Office of Facilities at ithaca.edu/facilities/src. How to prepare recycling:

7. RecycleMania is a national competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities in their campus communities. Over 10 weeks from January to April, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or has the highest recycling rate. Ithaca College has participated in the competition since 2005, and our goal is to reach a 50% recycling rate. So use this guide to keep up your recycling, look for our stats in the contest throughout the semester, and participate in the events REMP will be holding to promote the competition!

8. Rebuy To close the loop Purchase post-consumer, recycled, organic, fair trade, local goods to create a market for them. Look for products that are made of recycled materials and are recyclable (including the packaging). For example, Preserve makes toothbrushes from recycled yogurt cups in packaging that doubles as a mailer so you can send it back to them when you need a new toothbrush. Always look for local or used options before going to a big box store for your necessities. Look for “Fair Trade” items which paid the producer a living wage, and for high amounts of post-consumer recycled content. Avoid items that are cheap up front, but have a large environmental cost that will “cost” you and your children in the future, such as mass-produced plastic toys and highly processed foods. Check fingerlakesbuygreen.org for places to buy environmentally friendly products locally. “Re-sell” as well—on Swidjit, Craigslist, eBay, or Amazon to make back money on your gently used products.