Recycling Services Information
Work Orders
Have an item delivered or picked up - use Megamation to place a work request. (This will take you the Megamation work order system. The Facilities page has information about place a work request, set up an account, FAQ's, etc.)
Recycling Services
Recycling Services manages all of the College's locations of outgoing material with the goal of recycling or reusing as much as possible. We also encourage departments and student groups to purchase materials that are durable or made of recyclable content.
Lane Community College Recycling is the recipient of county, state, and national awards for excellence in operations and education. In 2011, Lane opened the Recycling Education Center (REC), a comprehensive recycling facility dedicated to minimizing the amount of material sent into the waste stream, reducing waste-related costs, increasing revenue through commodity and property sales, and educating the campus and community through events, internships, volunteer opportunities, and innovative operations.
What Recycling Services Can Do For You
- Presentations
Recycling Coordinator is offering five to fifteen minute presentations on ways to save individual departments and the college money and help out the environment at the same time. Please contact Luis Maggiori at 541-463-5884 to schedule him to speak at your next department meeting. - Boxes
Free desk-side recycling boxes available, call Recycling Services at 541-463-5634 for delivery. - Packaging Peanuts
Free packaging peanuts. We will take yours and save them for when you or someone else needs them. Call (541) 463-5634 for pick-up or delivery. - Pick up
Call Recycling Services at (541) 463-5733 to request a special pick up or to report overflowing barrels. - Shredding
Recycling Services will shred and recycle your confidential documents. Call (541) 463-5714 to make arrangements or schedule a pick-up.
Important Updates
Last year, our recycling processors made several changes to what we can recycle. You probably noticed the same with your home service. We are making updates to our guidelines pages to reflect this and working to keep our streams clean as we sort material.
Recycling and Composting Guidelines
Waste mitigation is an easy, everyday way to make a real difference in our community and help the environment! Always try to reduce consumption and reuse products before recycling.
Read below to find out more about what can be recycled or reused at Lane. Still have questions? Contact us! We're happy to answer all your recycling questions.
Alkaline (non-rechargeable flashlight-type batteries - AAA, AA, C, D)
- What do I do? Discard in trash. No recycling option.
- Where do they go? Discard in trash. No recycling option
Lead-Acid (Car Batteries), Lithium, Mercury, Ni-Cad, NiMH
- What do I do? Separate according to type in plastic bags & collect in central location
- Where do they go? Submit a request to Facilities for removal or deliver to the Facilities department office Room 204, Bldg. 7.
What:
Glass, plastic, and metal drink or food containers.
Due to changes in recycling markets, many previously collected plastic containers are no longer accepted. Lane Community College only accepts clear drink containers and milk jugs in its plastic recycling. We continue to accept metal and glass drink containers.
You can find more information about this change from Lane County Waste Management.
Lane County Waste Management regularly organizes "plastics roundups" for plastics no longer accepted in recycling streams. Find out more information about the plastics roundups.
About once a term, Lane Community College does a plastics roundup on campus. Keep an eye out in the Lane Weekly for dates and locations.
How:
Please empty, lightly rinse, and remove lids from cans and bottles. Metal lids may be placed in the cans & bottles container. Plastic lids should be placed in a garbage can.
Where:
Inside Buildings: Recycle containers inside in the blue recycling containers next to every paper container in the corridors of every building on campus. In many buildings on campus (Buildings 2,4,5,10,15,16, and 30), you will find built in cabinetry for recycling.
Outside Buildings: Recycle cans & bottles outside in the green barrels labeled for can and bottle recycling that are located outside every building on campus and next to most outdoor garbage cans.
What to do with everything else?
- Sheets of glass (windows, picture frame inserts) may be accepted by BRING Recycling or Aurora Glass.
- Other glass items (vases, cups, bowls) should be reused or donated to Goodwill, Saint Vincent de Paul or another reuse outlet.
- Scrap metal items that are not aluminum foil, aluminum or steel cans, should be placed in the scrap metal bin that is located to the east of Building 9.
As of July 2019, we can not accept composting from post-consumer sources. Our processor made several changes to what they accept. The processor will only take pure food waste. Since most of our compostables consist of plates, serviceware, and paper products, we cannot offer this service at this time. We are still composting pre-consumer food waste from our kitchens.
To have this service available again in the Eugene-Springfield area, please call your city or county waste management office and advocate for it.
Where
There is currently one way for students, staff, and faculty to compost.
The primary way for departments to compost is by participating in the Green Office Certification Program or by requesting a compost bucket from Recycling. The departmental compost bucket requires that participants deliver the full bucket to the Recycling Center in Building 10 and pick up a clean, empty one.
How:
The materials in the composting bucket must be food waste only. No compostable service-ware, napkins, pizza boxes, etc. Also, no dairy or meat products.
Computer Recycling
Any computer or computer peripherals (monitors, mice, usb cables, external hard drives, etc.) must be recycled, regardless of their condition. In fact, any item with a circuit board must be properly recycled to ensure a variety of toxic materials do not go into the landfill.
Aside from toxic material, computers also have many valuable materials that can be captured, sold, and remanufactued into new components. All of Lane Community College's electronics recycling is sent to either Next Step Recycling or St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County, both certified e-recyclers. These recyclers ensure material is safely deconstructed and stored, is sent to certified processors for processing (to ensure this material is not shipped to developing countries and processed by illegal labor), and ensures destruction of any remaining data on hard drives either through hard drive shredding or United States Department of Defense drive cleaning procedures.
To send electronics to recycling, please submit a work order to have this material picked up.
If you are unsure if you should send your computer or peripherals to recycling (many items can be reused by the college), please contact Information and Academic Technology.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has more information concerning electronics waste.
If you are looking for a place to recycle your home electronics, visit the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality's E-cycles page to find a certified recycler.
Appliance Recycling
Please send all appliances to Surplus Property so that they may be properly recycled. This includes items such as refrigerators, coffee makers, tea pots, desk fountains, clocks, etc. A good rule of thumb is that if you plug it in or put batteries in it, you should send it to be recycled. Many modern appliances have a small circuit board that must be recycled. Please empty the contents of all refrigerators prior to sending them to recycling!
To send appliances to recycling, please submit a work order to have them picked up.
What:
Huh? Landfill guidelines? And why the word "landfill" opposed to "trash" or "garbage"?
About three years ago, Lane Recycling began referring to discards that can not be reused or recycled as "landfill". Opposed to words like "compost" or "recycling", words such as "trash" or "garbage" are nowhere words. That is, they do not accurately describe the destination for the material. "Landfill" is more accurate and concrete in that is accurately describes where the material is going. The goal is to get people to think more completely about where they send material when they decide to discard it.
Any item that does not fit into Lane Recycling's guidelines should be placed in the landfill. Chip bags, candy wrappers, hot and cold cups from off campus (unless labeled as compostable), Styrofoam, mixed material (such as plastic glued to paper), most rigid plastics (such as a CD jewel case), plastic wrap, plastic shopping bags. (At this time, Lane does not have a vendor to purchase rigid plastics and plastic shopping bags). Coffee cups from off campus locations that are not labeled compostable have a plastic lining between the paper layers and must be land filled.
Since our goal is to reduce the amount of material going into the landfill, if you have questions about whether if you should discard something or not, please contact Recycling.
Where:
Please place discards into one of the inside or outside landfill containers. Most landfill containers have recycling next to them, so please make sure that if you need to discard something, make sure you can't recycle it.
How:
We are all very conditioned to throw things out. Give some thought before you discard. Contact Recycling if you have questions.
What:
Basically all paper that is used for writing or packaging is recyclable. Envelopes with labels, paper with staples, paper with binding, post-its, paper ream wrappers, thin cardboard packaging (cereal box). No pizza boxes or food-encrusted paper.
Paper with labels And tape is OK.
Staples & paper clips are OK.
Books:
Place 2-3 books inside a recycling barrel. If you have more than that, please box them and call Recycling Services at (541) 463-5733 for a special pick up.
Confidential Material:
Place shredded paper, in bags, inside of or next to the paper barrel OR call Recycling Services at (541) 463-5733 to arrange for your confidential material to be shredded for you. All confidential material is stored securly.
(print a copy of the paper recycling guidelines to post above your recycling area)
Where:
Inside Buildings: Recycle paper in the blue barrels labeled for paper recycling that are located in every building on campus. In many buildings on campus (Buildings 2,4,5,10,15,16, and 30), you will find built in cabinetry for recycling.
How:
Please place all acceptable paper in the paper bin. There is no need to separate by grade, type, or color.
What should not be recycled?
Paper plates, paper cups, carbon paper, napkins, paper towels, tissue, non-tearing paper-plastic blends, candy wrappers.
Donate your unneeded furniture, appliances, office supplies, and more! We redistribute this property to Lane departments and other state-funded and non-profit organizations. Learn more about how to donate or take advantage of surplus property.
If you are a state-funded or non-profit organization, contact LCC Surplus Property to inquire about available items or to determine of you qualify for state surplus property.
There are many items that do not fit into the recycling containers around campus or are not on the guidelines pages. Below, you will find a list of items Recycling accepts outside office paper, beverage containers, and compostable items.
Aluminum
Cans, Foil, Food Containers
- What do I do? Empty
- Where do they go? Place in designated Green Barrels marked "Cans and Bottles"
Batteries
Alkaline (non-rechargeable flashlight-type batteries - AAA, AA, C, D)
- What do I do? Discard in trash. No recycling option.
- Where do they go? Discard in trash. No recycling option
Lead-Acid (Car Batteries), Lithium, Mercury, Ni-Cad, NiMH
- What do I do? Separate according to type in plastic bags & collect in central location
- Where do they go? Submit work order to Facilities for removal or deliver to Facilities department office Room 204, Bldg. 7.
Cardboard
Corrugated
- What do I do? Flatten
- Where do they go? Place in brown wooden collection boxes or place behind paper barrels
"Thin" (cereal box type)
- What do I do? Flatten
- Where do they go? Place in designated Blue Barrels marked "Other Paper"
Glass
Plate Glass
- What do I do? Currently no recycling option
- Where do they go? Place directly in dumpster; do not place in local can
Pyrex
- What do I do? Currently no recycling option
- Where do they go? Place directly in dumpster; do not place in local can
Broken Glass
- What do I do? Currently no recycling option
- Where do they go? Place directly in dumpster; do not place in local can
Metal Scrap
- Where do they go? Place in the metal recycling drop box to the east of Building 10. No appliances. Contact us for more information.
Plastic Bags
- What do I do? Recycling barrels for plastic film/bags are located outside of the Bookstore
- Where do they go? Place in blue "plastic bag" collection container outside of the Bookstore, or reuse, or recycle at local grocery store
Printer Cartridges
Place 1-2 printer cartridges in a paper recycling barrel - Recycling will sort out and recycle. If you have more than a few cartridges, please box them and write a work order to have them picked up.
Styrofoam
Block Styrofoam
- What do I do? Currently no recycling option at Lane
- Where do they go? Dispose in Trash
Packing Peanuts
- What do I do? Place in bag or box. Clean peanuts only!
- Where do they go? Place next to any Blue or Green recycling barrel or Brown recycling box
Wood Scrap
- What do I do? Call us at (541) 463-5455 for removal or place in wood recycling drop box in the northeast parking lot.