Auburn University Waste Reduction and Recycling Dept.

🏈♻️ We're greening the gridiron for gameday, setting out hundreds of additional recycling bins for plastic bottles and aluminum cans across campus, in tailgate areas and at Jordan-Hare Stadium 🏈♻️

We 🧡 our . 🏈♻️Recycle your plastic bottles and aluminum cans on gameday. Look for recycling bins inside and outside Jordan-Hare Stadium and across campus in tailgating areas.

The Waste Reduction and Recycling Department is hiring a Solid Waste Tech to assist with the solid waste and recycling programs on campus by servicing waste and recycling containers inside and outside university buildings. Auburn University was named a Best in Alabama employer by Forbes and offers competitive state benefits.

Facilities Management is seeking construction and solid waste technicians and a plumber for full-time positions! For additional information, head to:
Construction Tech I/II: https://www.auemployment.com/postings/47952
Plumber I/II: https://www.auemployment.com/postings/47598
Solid Waste Tech: https://www.auemployment.com/postings/46546

🗣We're excited to meet you at the Sustainability Picnic Wed., Aug. 28 from 4:30-6:30pm at the Davis Arboretum. This zero-waste event will feature local food. Meet student groups and campus organizations, enjoy music and games, and 🍦 ice cream. See you there! 🦅

🆓Binder Giveaway | August 19 | 10 a.m. | Haley Concourse | We collect good used binders all year, diverting them from the landfill. We're giving them away for 🆓 to Auburn students.

🐯Tigers, we're excited to have you back on campus. Enjoy the first day of class.🙌🎉

May is 🚴‍♀‍🚴‍♂‍ Whether you ride for fun or fitness, or take essential trips to school or work, you are part of the movement for safer streets, connected communities, a healthier planet, and happier people. National Bike Month is an opportunity to celebrate the unique power of the bicycle and the many reasons to ride. League of American Bicyclists

🐯💚🌎 Tigers love the earth. to everyone who celebrated with us. 🎉 Remember to and .

Celebrate Earth Day with us today. Visit our booth, play a sorting game, and learn about waste and recycling. There will be tote bag decorating, plant-potting, bouquet-making, free food, and more! 💚🌼🌸⭐️♻️🌎🆓 Earth Day Extravaganza | Monday, April 22 | Campus Green | 11am-2pm

🌎 Rallying for Sustainable Communities Event (Saturday, April 13th, 9am-12pm, Kreher Preserve and Nature Center, Auburn, AL). This event aims to unite the Auburn-Opelika community around sustainability by educating families about the environment and sustainable practices through interactive stations covering composting, waste separation, recycling, upcycling, native wildlife, bio-materials, and more. For all ages and backgrounds.

Litter bugs us 🪲 to InterConnect with the Graduate School for volunteering to help keep our campus clean and green. They picked up 12 pounds of litter: 7 pounds of trash and 5 pounds of recycling (plastic bottles and aluminum cans).

Sustainability Capstone students conducted a waste audit, sorting 2️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ pounds of garbage 🗑🚛 to identify the types of waste generated from the Quad Residence Halls. They found 5️⃣9️⃣ pounds of recyclables in the trash 😠, including 2️⃣0️⃣ pounds of paper, 1️⃣9️⃣ pounds of cardboard, and 1️⃣3️⃣ pounds of plastic containers that they diverted ⤴️ from the landfill and recycled ♻️🙂.

Shredded and recycled ♻ 4,800 pounds of paper 🗂 at yesterday's Document Shredding Day ✂️📄

🎊♻️ Leap years are any year that can be exactly divided by 4 except if it can be exactly divided by 100, then it isn't a leap year except if it can be exactly divided by 400, then it is a leap year. Leap year ensures calendar alignment with Earth's orbit. We add an extra day to the calendar in leap years, February 29, known as leap day. On this leap day, we're going to and . How are you going to spend your leap day?

🎉Check out the posters designed by Auburn students Ellen Stovall, Madden Terry and Morgan Key displayed on the Bigbelly waste and ♻️recycling stations. The units use ☀️solar power and advanced communications technologies to maximize operational efficiencies. They are self-powered with 100% of their energy needs coming from ☀️solar power. The trash compactor is paired with a ♻️recycling bin for plastic bottles, aluminum cans and steel cans.

♻️We recycled 2326 pounds of film plastics in 2023, exceeding our goal of 1000 pounds, diverting this plastic waste from ending up in a landfill and giving it new life as composite decking.

There is a special collection bin for plastic bags and other film plastics located inside Langdon Annex, sponsored by Auburn University Office of Sustainability. Film plastics should not be put in any other recycling bin on campus.

✅ACCEPTABLE grocery bags, bread bags, case overwrap, reclosable food storage bags, produce bags, product wrap, air pillows, bubble wrap, plastic shipping envelopes, pallet wrap and stretch film.
Plastic film must be clean, dry and free of food residue.

❌UNACCEPTABLE frozen food bags, salad mix bags, candy wrappers, chip bags, pet food bags, six-pack rings, PPE (gloves, masks), lamination film, vinyl (shower curtains, bedding/linen packaging), cellophane (crinkles).

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. -- Rainer Maria Rilke 🎉 in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣

We ♻ recycled 619 tons (1,238,000 pounds) of cardboard, paper and containers (plastic bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans) at Auburn University in 2023.

Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. Among its many benefits, recycling reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills, conserves natural resources, saves energy and prevents pollution, and helps sustain the environment for future generations.

The more people who participate in these activities, the greater the effect they will have on our planet. 🌎 A sustainable planet will result in healthier lives for those who inhabit it.

⭐️The holidays can be a time when we spend too much and create too much waste. When you make sustainable choices, you will get more of what we all need: time to enjoy family and friends and to focus on the joys of the season.

Keep your money where your ❤️ heart is. ♦️ Invest in community ♦️ Encourage local prosperity ♦️ Reduce environmental impact.

✳️The holidays are a time of gathering around a table, enjoying holiday food favorites and (over)eating. The joy of eating is usually followed by leftovers landing in the garbage can. That’s part of the 40% of food wasted year-round in the United States. Small changes can add up to big results, so make a pledge to reduce ⬇️ food waste this holiday season.

🎶Brown paper packages tied up with strings🎶

Choosing the right gift 🎁 for someone can be difficult, especially when they seem to have everything. The last thing we want to do is spend money on an item that’s going to go unused. Think about giving a handmade gift instead of purchasing something. Handmade gifts are: ⏺one of a kind ⏺personal ⏺created with love.

🎉🇺🇸♻️ America Recycles Day Keep America Beautiful Keep Alabama Beautiful

🎉 Celebrate America Recycles Day (ARD) 🇺🇸♻ with us. Stop by our table on the Haley Concourse to learn about recycling on campus. Take the ARD pledge 🇺🇸♻✏️ to recycle more and recycle right, hang out with Aubie 🐯, and win prizes 🎁.

America Recycles Day at Auburn University
Wednesday, November 15
Haley Concourse
9:30-11:30 a.m.

🟢 A day to educate
🟢 A day to motivate
🟢 A day to make recycling bigger and better

We believe in recycling and love it 💚♻️ Keep America Beautiful

STUDENT JOB OPPORTUNITY Seeking an enrolled undergrad AU student to assist with the university's solid waste and recycling activities, events and programs. Learn more/apply: https://www.auemployment.com/postings/41632.

Shredded and recycled ♻ 4,500 pounds of paper 🗂 at our last Document Shredding Day ✂️📄 of the year

♻ Live Green, Save Green students conducted a waste audit, sorting 150 pounds of garbage 🗑🚛 to identify the types of waste generated at the university.

♻️ Good things happen when Auburn's at work. ✅ First football game of the season. 🏈 Enjoying the win and on to the next!