Recycling Program
Monthly Recycling Update
Your commitment to the College's "Stonehill Goes Green" program has amounted to a total 4.8 tons of single stream recycling for the month of March, 2024. That is 5.4% of our mainstream waste for that month!
Year to Date Update
So far this fiscal year (7/1/23 - 3/31/24) we have collected a total of 88.51 tons of single stream recycling materials. That's over 12.2% of our total mainstream waste. It's also a savings of:
- 1,505 trees
- 619,570 gallons of water
- 362,891 kW of electricity
- 266 cubic yards of landfill
- 33,634 gallons of oil
- 5,311 lbs. of air pollutants
Follow this link to view a chart of the year at a glance data.
Stonehill College has contracted with recycling vendor NRRA (Northeast Resource Recovery Association) to pick up and process our single-stream recycling. Single-stream means you don't have to separate paper and plastic in to different bins. Simply combine paper, and clean glass, plastic, and aluminum containers into one recycling bin.
Recycling bins are located in all offices and residence halls on Campus. Facilities Management empties these bins on a weekly schedule, and their contents are placed in a large container behind Roche Dining Commons. These containers are emptied regularly by NRRA who then transports this material to a central distribution center and issues the College a report. If you would like a recycling bin please submit a work request here.
In addition to paper, Stonehill also recycles the following items: cans, plastic & glass bottles, metal and plastic food containers, plastic bottles, batteries, glass, cell phones, computer and electronic equipment, light bulbs, inkjet & laserjet ink cartridges, waste oil, old college furniture, and mattresses.
We also recycle printer ink cartridges and cell phones. Drop-off sites have been set up at the following locations:
Duffy Building - East Elevator Landing
Roche Dining Commons - Front Main Entrance
Clock Farm - Main Office Lobby
Merkert-Tracy Hall - Break Rooms
In March of 2012 we invited representatives from Clean Green Solutions and Rochester Midland Corporation to train our custodians on green cleaning. They all successfully completed training and testing in "Rochester Midland's Certified Green Housekeeping Program" which is a recognized LEED program. So now all of our custodians are registered LEED certified in green cleaning!
Please visit the Operations page or e-mail jgagne@stonehill.edu for additional information.