{"id":349,"date":"2010-04-29T13:46:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/?page_id=349"},"modified":"2015-06-08T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T03:44:00","slug":"recycling-process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/recycling-process\/","title":{"rendered":"MU Recycling Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens to the recyclable material once it leaves Marshall\u2019s campus?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Recycling-1\"<\/a>Marshall University\u2019s Recycling Program picks up recycling from numerous locations all over the Huntington campus.\u00a0 When the recycling is picked up, it is taken to a recycle only compactor located between Harris Hall and the Science Building.\u00a0Each resident hall and building has a designated recycle drop off spot; it is collected by student employees and taken here. When the compactor reaches capacity, approximately 10 tons, it is hauled to a recycle processing plant.<\/p>\n

Where does the recyclable material go when it leaves Marshall\u2019s Huntington campus?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the recycling leaves Marshall\u2019s campus, it is taken to a Rumpke processing plant in Portsmouth, OH.\u00a0 The material is presorted.\u00a0 Cardboard is sorted, baled, and shipped to Temple Inland in Maysville, KY.\u00a0 Trash is pulled and sent to the Wellston, OH landfill.\u00a0 Fiber products, aluminum, plastic, and steel are baled together and sent to the Columbus, OH single-stream processing plant.<\/p>\n

Where does the material go when it leaves the Rumpke\u2019s Portsmouth, OH processing plant?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cardboard<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Temple-Inland, www.templeinland.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Maysville, KY<\/p>\n

Cardboard is used to manufacture corrugated packaging.<\/p>\n

Fiber products, aluminum, plastic, and steel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Rumpke Recycling, www.rumpkerecycling.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Columbus, OH<\/p>\n

The Columbus, OH single-stream processing plant uses both machinery and people to sort material as it goes down the conveyor belt.\u00a0 Sorting takes place to minimize trash mixed in with the recyclable material.\u00a0 The plastic bottles are sorted into plastic #1: Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), plastic #2: High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), and plastics #3 through #7.\u00a0 You can check out EPA.gov<\/a> for a comprehensive list of plastics #3 through #7, their composition, and resulting manufactured product.\u00a0 The aluminum and steel are then separated.\u00a0 A video of the single-stream recycling process can be found at the Rumpke Recycling website listed above.<\/p>\n

Trash<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Rumpke, www.rumpke.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Wellston, OH<\/p>\n

The trash is put in the Beech Hollow landfill.<\/p>\n

Where does the recyclable material go when it leaves Rumpke\u2019s Columbus processing plant?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aluminum<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Anheuser Busch, www.anheuser-busch.com\/Environment\/recycling.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Louisville, KY<\/p>\n

Aluminum is used to manufacture cans.\u00a0 According to Anheuser Busch\u2019s website, they \u201crecycled 99.4% of the solid waste generated in the brewing and packaging of their beers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fiber<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Newark Recycled Fibers, http:\/\/www.newarkgroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Franklin, OH<\/p>\n

Fiber is used to manufacture paperboard.\u00a0 For example, cereal and shoe boxes are made from paperboard.<\/p>\n

HDPE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Haviland Drainage Products, www.haviland-draninage.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Haviland, OH<\/p>\n

Plastic #2 is used to manufacture drainage products including sewer and drain pipes and corrugate tubing.<\/p>\n

PET<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Signode, www.signode.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Florence, KY<\/p>\n

Plastic #1 is used to manufacture plastic strapping.<\/p>\n

Steel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I. H. Schlezinger, Inc., www.ihschlezinger.com\/default.asp?page=home<\/a><\/p>\n

Columbus, OH<\/p>\n

Steel is sold to Schlezinger\u2019s.\u00a0 They sort and sell the steel to back into the steel industry.<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t we recycle glass?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glass is a recyclable material.\u00a0 However, due to the small size of the Portsmouth, OH sorting plant, glass becomes a liability.\u00a0 The space is too small to properly move and sort the glass.\u00a0 The employee\u2019s safety becomes an issue.<\/p>\n

MU Recycling Home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happens to the recyclable material once it leaves Marshall\u2019s campus? Marshall University\u2019s Recycling Program picks up recycling from numerous locations all over the Huntington campus.\u00a0 When the recycling is picked up, it is taken to a recycle only compactor located between Harris Hall and the Science Building.\u00a0Each resident hall and building has a designated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}