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Eliminate Waste

Recycling:

1)      Practice the 4Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle and buy products with recycled content.

2)      Recycle white, colored, post-it, shredded and construction paper, empty metal cans, pans, empty clear and colored glass containers, empty plastic bottles, clean plastic wrap and bags, buckets and trays. corrugated (wavy edges) cardboard boxes (please no waxed cardboard and flatten boxes), styrofoam packing forms (but not packing peanuts), chipboard (small office supply boxes), newspaper, telephone books, catalogs, magazines, brochures, paperback and hardcover books, Kraft (brown paper bag) paper, paper ream wrappers, envelopes (windows ok) and file folders. Non-recyclable items: paper cups or plates, tissues or paper towels, food or wet waste, food or liquid stained items, wood or green waste.

3)      Reuse paper that has only been used on one side

4)      Recycle your old cell phone to prevent hazardous substances from entering our environment. These substances include lead, arsenic, and cadmium, which have been linked with cancer, neurological disorders, and developmental abnormalities. Some helpful links: www.recyclewirelessphones.org and Wireless Foundation’s “Donate a Phone” program: www.wirelessfoundation.org

5)      Recycle your ink cartridges through our campus program. E-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to request a postage-paid envelop to mail your used ink cartridge off to a recycling facility. Please e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it [# of recycloer) a pick up of laser cartridges - they are grouped in larger boxes and sent in for recycling.

6)      The SDSU Physical Plant recycles boxes.

7)      Recycle your junk mail by depositing it in the large blue trash containers outside the Arrowhead Village or in the trash rooms in Serrano Village.

 

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Computer Power Savings

PUTTING YOUR COMPUTER TO

 

SLEEP

 

When you're not using your computer, you can save energy by putting it to "sleep." When your computer is in sleep, it's turned on but in a low power mode. It takes less time for a computer to wake up from sleep than it does for the computer to start up after being turned off.

 

You can put your computer to sleep right away by choosing Apple menu > Sleep. You can also choose to put the computer to sleep automatically when your computer has been inactive for a specified amount of time. You can also set only the display to sleep. If your computer is in the middle of a task that you want to let finish while you are away (for example, burning a DVD), you should set only the display to sleep.

 

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Reduce your energy usage

Green Tips for everyone

 

  1. Use Energy Star Products.
  2. Replace Incandescent light bulbs with  Compact Flourescent Lamps (CFL's).
  3. Turn lights off when you're not in the room/classroom.
  4. Use half the lights when possible
  5. Use natural light when possible.
  6. Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
  7. Turn off computer's during the night.
  8. Use your computers "Stand-by" mode instead of screen savers.
  9. Plug Appliances that have phantom loads (anything that basically needs a remote or needs charging) into a surge protector and switch it off when appliances are not in use.
  10. Unplug Cell Phone Chargers when you're not charging your cell phone.
  11. Reduce the number of refrigerators in use by sharing refrigerators.
  12. Avoid leaving the refrigerator or freezer doors open.
  13. Remember to turn off the oven and stove tops
  14. Turn off curling and straightening irons and unplug hair dryers.
  15. Do laundry during off peak hours (after about 6 pm). 
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