What happens to the money from the recycled paper?
The payment from Manistique Papers for each truckload of paper recycled is currently reinvested in the recycling program, which has ongoing expenses in spite of having no paid staff. Even though our paper broker, Lakestate Industries of Escanaba, found a source of free gaylord boxes for storage and transport of the paper (from a Wisconsin glass recycler), the freight charge for a truckload of boxes is nearly $600! We plan to buy more blue bins for individual offices and more collection carts for custodians. The ESC reimbursed the Grounds Department for repairing the floor of the storage trailer and for buying a pallet jack for moving the full gaylord boxes. An unrestricted gift from an anonymous donor to the ESC’s new Michigan Tech Fund account covered the costs of a reception for departmental recycling liaisons, so no proceeds from the recycling program were used. For more information about program expenses, click here.
