The purpose of the Phillips Academy recycling program, in its broadest sense, is to adopt a culture of environmental responsibility at the academy that follows the three R's: reduce, reuse and recycle.

We want to encourage students, faculty and staff to discuss and implement ways to make recycling a fun, important part of PA life. We hope to raise greater recycling awareness on campus. On-going projects include colorful posters, this Web site on PA recycling, a student survey, recycling flyers and much more.

• To increase awareness about recycling
• To increase amount of paper, cans and bottles recycled campuswide
• To decrease food waste

On-Campus Recycling Locations

1. Rabbit Pond Circle, near the entrance to Cochran Sanctuary

2. Evans parking lot, south of the cemetery

3. Paul Revere parking lot, south of Evans

4. Andover Inn parking lot, south of Stowe House

5. Gym parking lot, southeast of the gym

6. Bancroft circle, east of Bancroft Hall

7. Johnson Hall driveway, south of Johnson Hall

8. Draper Hall parking lot, southeast of Draper Hall

9. Sumner Smith parking lot, west of the OPP stockroom

10. Isham parking lot, northwest of Isham dormitory

11. Draper Cottage driveway.

12. Bertha Bailey driveway/barn

Town of Andover Recycling Collection

Phillips Academy participates in the Town of Andover recycling collection every other week. Please leave your recycling container at the edge of the street the night before the day of collection.

• The recycling schedule is on the Town of Andover web site. The town schedule is also posted in the faculty room.
• The Town of Andover collects cans, glass and plastic #1-7. Please check the number in the recycling triangle on the bottom of the container.
• East of Main Street is picked up every other Monday.
• West of Main Street is picked up on every other Tuesday.
• After a Monday holiday, both collections are delayed by one day.
• Large dorms may use the large brown or green wheeled toters from Waste Management to collect plastic, glass and cans for town recycling.
• Small dorms and faculty living in non-dorm housing may use the blue Andover recycling bins for town recycling. Blue bins may be picked up at the OPP stockroom.

Phillips Academy recycles mixed paper, cardboard, deposit containers, cans, plastic and glass. In addition, all food waste from the dining hall is collected six mornings per week by Herb's Disposal and taken to a composting facility. The food service also recycles cooking oil and other waste products. The Office of Physical Plant recycles motor oil, wood, scrap metal and other waste products.

Pepsi has been the academy's recycling partner for more than five years. Pepsi pays Phillips Academy $.05 for each deposit bottle or can placed in the Pepsi recycling bins, located next to each Pepsi vending machine. All other glass and plastic may be recycled in the Town of Andover recycling collection.

Paper and Cardboard Recycling:

• Students receive blue recycling baskets (fig. 1) to collect their own paper and empty cans and bottles
• Each dorm has large central bins in which students may recycle paper and cardboard (fig. 3) and cans and other beverage containers (fig. 4)
• Students take the paper recycled by the dorm to one of 12 blue dumpsters (fig. 5)(labeled for paper and cardboard) on campus as part of their dorm responsibilities
• Staff from the office of physical plant collect the recycled paper from the dumpsters weekly and transport it to a materials recovery facility (MRF) in Lawrence, MA.
• Pepsi collects the recycled cans and bottles from the blue bins (fig. 4) next to the Pepsi machines each week. Students in small dorms without Pepsi machines take their recycled cans and bottles to a blue bin next to a Pepsi machine in a larger dorm.
• Students may also recycle non-deposit plastic, glass and cans in the Town of Andover Recycling Collection described above.
  

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• Faculty and staff collect paper to be recycled in red deskside recycling bins (fig. 2) and empty those bins into the yellow department recycling bin near the department copier (fig. 3).
• Staff from the office of physical plant collect the recycled paper from the yellow department bins and empty it into the blue dumpsters (fig. 5) which are collected weekly.
• Arrangements can be made for custodians to collect plastic and glass from the staff lounge in some large administrative buildings, as needed. Call Susan Stott at ext. 4105 if interested.
• Batteries may be recycled in the pails labeled "Battery Recycling" located in the lobby of Commons and the GW student mailroom.

• All food waste from the kitchen (except for meat products) and all food waste from plates in the dining room (including napkins) are collected six mornings a week and taken to a compost facility in southern New Hampshire.
• Students are asked to take no more than they will eat to minimize waste.
• The food service recycles cooking oil and other products used in the kitchen.
• The food service places napkins on the table, rather than in the serving line, since experience shows this cuts napkin usage by more than 50 percent.
• Cardboard is loaded into the cardboard baler (fig. 6) and compressed to be recycled.

Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/

Connecticut College
http://camel2.conncoll.edu/ccrec/greennet/body_index.html

UC Davis Campus R4 Recycling Program
http://r4.ucdavis.edu/Default.htm

Rice Recycles
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~recycle/

Emory Recycles
http://www.emory.edu/FMD/web/Recycling/recycling.html

Loyola Marymount University
http://www.catsbn.com/recycle/index.html

UCLA Recycling Program
http://www.fm.ucla.edu/fm/html/sp_prg/recyc_frames.html

UC Berkeley Campus Recycling
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~recycle/

America Recycles Day
http://www.americarecyclesday.org/

Second Nature
http://www.secondnature.org/home.html