Where does the paper go after it is collected?
Ultimately, the paper goes to Manistique Papers in Manistique, about 185 miles southeast of Houghton. On campus, custodians empty the blue recycling bins into wheeled blue collection carts or gaylord boxes (heavy-duty, large cardboard shipping boxes) in loading docks. The recycling carts are picked up by grounds workers in pickup trucks and transported to a storage building where they are emptied into a gaylord box. A large fork-lift is used to transfer gaylord boxes to the storage trailer. Once we have a full trailer (40+ gaylord boxes), we arrange transport by a trucking firm. The gaylords are transferred from our trailer to theirs, and they are on their way. See photos of the process at .
