[Sci-tech-public] July is Clean out Your Files Month!

[Amy B. Donovan]

**July is Clean out Your Files Month!

This month, The Working Group Recycling Committee, in partnership with the 
Department of Facilities, is again holding our annual paper recycling 
drive: Clean Out Your Files Month.

During the July 2005 Clean Out Your Files Month, the mixed paper recycling 
total was 70.3 tons, the highest tonnage ever, and a 12 ton jump from the 
June 2005 total. This increase supported our goal of a campus-wide 
recycling rate of 40% in 2005, and therefore helped MIT win the City of 
Cambridge "Go Green Award for Large Businesses" in the category of waste 
reduction. Your recycling efforts make a difference!

*The best way to recycle the paper generated from cleaning out your files 
is to utilize the blue or grey desk side bins in your office. If you need a 
desk side bin, contact <mailto:recycling at mit.edu>recycling at mit.edu, or 
purchase one from Office Depot for only $3.00, Item # 373860.

*If you fill up your local bins during your clean up you can, 
alternatively, bring your paper recycling to one of many large dedicated 
totes that the Department of Facilities has placed in building lobbies all 
around campus. For the locations of these bins please see: 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/cleanoutyourfiles.shtml

"If you can rip it, you can recycle it." For more details on Clean Out Your 
Files Month, including guides on what to recycle and what not to recycle, 
please see: http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/cleanoutyourfiles.shtml

In conjunction with this event:
**Office Depot Catalog Swap!

Come by the Catalog Swap and RECYCLE your old catalog and pick up the NEW 
2006-2007 Office Depot Catalog. Also available is the Office Depot Green 
Book - the industry's first catalog consisting solely of environmentally 
preferable product offerings and printed on elemental chlorine free, 
100-percent post consumer waste (PCW) recycled content paper.

The Catalog Swap is coming soon to 3 locations near you, during the last 2 
weeks of July. Dates and times will be announced shortly. Check the Clean 
Out Your Files website for dates and times: 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/cleanoutyourfiles.shtml  For more info, call 
your on-site MIT Office Depot team @ 3-4760.



**The Campus-Wide Environmental Calendar: A Collaboration for 2006 and Beyond

The July 2006 desktop calendar features Clean Out Your Files Month! To 
download WGR's monthly E-calendar, go to: 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/calendars.shtml

Please forward!

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Amy Donovan
Co-Chair, Working Group Recycling Committee (WGR) 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/
Editor, The Bale http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml
adonovan at mit.edu

The mission of the MIT Working Group Recycling Committee is to develop and 
deliver programs that educate administrative and support staff about 
recycling, reducing and reusing goods. Efforts include 
identifying/addressing gaps in staff understanding about recycling as well 
as gaps in recycling resources and creating ways to increase recycling at MIT.

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