Recycling

• The college has recycling programs for paper, metal, glass, and plastics for the student residence halls and apartments. Click here for information.
  
  
• All of our cottages participate in the City of Holland recycling program managed by the city’s waste collection vendor. Click here for the City of Holland's website.
  
  
• The college has office paper recycling available for all departments with the paper shredded and recycled into home insulation product (by an outside vendor).

We also recycle buildings – preferring to renovate existing buildings as opposed to using demolition in preparation for new construction even though new construction can be less expensive than renovation. The college recycles and reuses building materials from renovation projects as much as possible in order to minimize landfill waste.

• The Transportation and Grounds Departments recycle all fluids from vehicle maintenance and keep the fleet in good running order, helping the vehicles be as fuel efficient as possible.
  
  
• The college has a recycling program for batteries (151 lb. in 2007 and 563 lb. in 2008), fluorescent bulbs and ballasts (8,034 bulbs in 2007 and 17,436 in 2008), transformers, and copper wire.
  
  
• Current dry cell battery recycling locations:
  
  Bookstore (printer cartridges, too)
  DeWitt Center Student Union Desk
  Dow Center - northwest lobby
  Library - south entry alcove
  Cook Hall Dining - check in
  Phelps Hall Dining - south check in
  Cook Hall – lobby
  Dykstra Hall - north lobby
  Kollen Hall - north lobby
  
  
• Please visit the City of Holland's web page listing charities that will accept usable goods.