Why must I empty my deskside recycling bins into the collection point bins when our custodians empty my deskside trash bin?
Custodians have always emptied the deskside trash containers. However, when the recycling program was phased in campus-wide during the early 1990s, the job of collecting the recyclables and placing them outside for pickup was a new responsibility for the custodial staff. Therefore, the Office of Waste Management and Custodial Services agreed that custodians would only be asked to empty the larger collection point containers and that faculty and staff would be asked to empty their own deskside containers into these larger containersIt was further agreed that there would be no more than one collection point per approximately six staff or faculty. . Many – if not all – colleges and universities with recycling programs require their staff to empty their own recycling bins.
