{"id":235,"date":"2010-10-07T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T22:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-10-07T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T22:21:48","slug":"styrofoam-recycling-pilot-leads-to-cost-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2010\/10\/07\/styrofoam-recycling-pilot-leads-to-cost-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Styrofoam recycling pilot leads to cost savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/2010\/09\/showcasing-sustainability-to-new-students-connect-week-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\">As mentioned in a previous post<\/a>, we collected approximately <strong>120 cubic yards<\/strong> (equal to 20 standard dumpsters) of Styrofoam in just 6 days during residence hall move-in week. This was the first time <a href=\"http:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Campus Recycling<\/a> offered a bin to collect this material separately.<\/p>\n<p>We recently received the invoice for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalreclaim.com\/oregon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Total Reclaim<\/a>\u2019s recycling and hauling fee, and then asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corvallis.disposal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Allied Waste<\/a> how much it would have cost to have this hauled as trash (4 30-yard drop boxes).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we paid to have the Styrofoam recycled was <span style=\"color: #008080\">just 13% of what it would have cost to send it to the landfill<\/span>.<\/strong> Phenomenal!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\/resources\/Styrofoam.jpg\" alt=\"Styrofoam\" width=\"420\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a previous post, we collected approximately 120 cubic yards (equal to 20 standard dumpsters) of Styrofoam in just 6 days during residence hall move-in week. This was the first time Campus Recycling offered a bin to collect this material separately. We recently received the invoice for Total Reclaim\u2019s recycling and hauling fee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}