Vanderbilt has a 20-year history of recycling efforts to reduce waste going to landfills. In addition to traditional recycling programs for materials such as paper, plastic, cardboard, and glass, Vanderbilt has recycling programs for non-traditional materials like construction and demolition debris, toner cartridges, batteries, light bulbs, scrap metal, and electronics.
Lab Plastic Recycling Program:
In buildings serviced by the campus recycling team, all clean (nonhazardous) plastic containers #1–#7 can be recycled. This includes most pipette tip boxes that would go into the regular trash.
Unacceptable materials include: plastic films/bags, lamination, and Styrofoam. Labs should also follow standing procedures for disposing of hazardous materials or those materials contaminated with hazardous materials. Pipette tip boxes used in conjunction with recombinant materials and/or biological material that could be infectious to humans, animals, or plants must be discarded with biohazardous waste.
Building List:
Research buildings serviced by VU Campus Recycling Team:
- MRB III
- Learned Lab
- Stevenson Center 1–7
- Engineering and Science Building
- Featheringill Hall
- Free Electron Laser Center