Recycling @ Cornell
This colored bin is commonly used for recycling cans and bottles on Cornell’s campus.
What is blue?
CSC’s Can Carrier Reuse project works to reduce this kind of waste from carriers.
What is plastic waste?
This organization does pro‑bono sustainability consulting for campus and community partners.
What is Cornell Sustainability Consultants (CSC)?
Cornell’s Can Carrier Reuse project initially works in this region.
What is the Ithaca/Finger Lakes area?
A simple action like reusing a can carrier helps reduce this type of environmental footprint.
What is a waste footprint?
Before placing them in Cornell’s recycling bins, students are asked to do this to cans and bottles to prevent contamination.
What is rinse them?
One goal of the project is to partner with these local businesses that serve beer.
What are Greenstar and Personal Best?
The circular economy goal of CSC is to keep materials in these types of loops.
What are closed material loops?
Can carrier is based off of this state's model system.
What is Vermont?
Turning old carriers into something new is an example of this type of ecological action.
What is reuse?
Cornell recycles plastics with these numbers on them, which are accepted in single-stream recycling on campus.
What are #1, #2, and #5?
CSC plans a communication system with customers and businesses via this type of messaging list.
What is a Listserv?
This office on campus tracks energy use, waste, and sustainable initiatives to guide Cornell’s environmental efforts.
What is the Cornell Office of Sustainability?
Can Carrier works this amount of greenstar locations.
Instead of throwing food scraps away, this process turns them into nutrient-rich soil for plants.
What is composting?
This student-run initiative places TerraCycle bins across campus to recycle items that are not accepted in standard bins.
What is the TerraCycle program?
This funded initiative provided the mini‑grant that helped the project begin.
What is the Sustainable Finger Lakes mini‑grant?
Cornell is investing in this type of renewable energy.
What is geothermal?
A building designed to save energy, water, and reduce waste is called a ______ building.
What is a green or sustainable building?
Cornell participates in this annual nationwide competition to reduce waste and encourage sustainable practices on campuses.
What is the Campus Race to Zero Waste?
What type of plastic are can carriers made from?
What is Type 2 HDPE plastic?
Cornell participates in this international environmental reporting program that measures energy, water, waste, and other sustainability metrics.
What is the STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) program?
Turning used carriers into reusable ones helps support this larger environmental principle that emphasizes reuse over disposal.
What is the circular economy?
This type of energy renewable but can cause nearby water to heat up.
What is Nuclear Energy?