The University of Miami has a recycling program for the entire faculty and staff that begins with a cardboard box container under each desk for input of recyclable office paper. This cardboard container is emptied by the University of Miami employee, as it becomes full during the day or week depending on the user's amount of recyclable office paper, into a 90-gallon plastic container with lid near offices for removal by UNICCO's recycling personnel to a compactor for paper. During the week, each area is scheduled for pick- up by UNICCO recycling truck and employees. The 90-gallon containers are taken to a compactor on campus, which when full is reported to Waste Management who transports contents to their recycling plant.

Waste containers are also available for wet trash in each kitchen and eating room, which is emptied five days a week by the night housekeeping staff. Our basic cleaning services five days a week, which is how often UNICCO picks up paper and wet trash weekly, Sunday night through Thursday night.

Trash pick-ups in everyone's office are scheduled once a week instead of nightly due to the recycling program. The University also generates a large amount of paper from the computer labs and other office type areas with a daily pick-up. In general, areas, especially by the copy machines, have collection boxes that are also picked up daily.

Residential Colleges
All floors of all residential colleges have recycling containers to recycle plastic, aluminum, and glass. Pick-up will be done on a weekly basis. All residential college computer labs have office paper recycling bins, as well.

In addition, there are two exterior thirty cubic yard containers located in the vicinity of each of the high-rise residential colleges. These containers have sliding doors on their sides to put recyclables, such as newspaper and commingled items (aluminum, plastic, and glass). Contamination is present but less than the small containers used in the interiors of the residential colleges.

Dining Halls
Recycling compactors are located at the Mahoney/Pearson Dining Hall and the Hecht/Stanford Dining Hall. Most canned goods and other commodities are shipped in cardboard. Contamination occurs from wax cardboard containers being deposited, which are used for wet trash. These are natural places to collect cardboard.

General Campus
A 40 cubic yard-cardboard compactor is located at the end of Miller Road entering a large delivery pit behind the bookstore/food court part of the University Center facility, in which the bookstore, food court, and post office provide cardboard. This cardboard compactor is also used by janitorial staff in removing cardboard from the dormitories and depositing the contents into this compactor. It is all emptied by telephone call to Waste Management, Inc.

Miscellaneous
The University has six yard containers for leftover school newspapers that are brought to it by The Miami Hurricane newspaper staff for issues not used. The Richter Library also has office paper recycling bins in the Information Commons. In addition, many of the campus courtyards have set up containers for recycling, including the School of Law Quadrangle, Allen Hall Memorial Classroom Building, Cox Science Center, and the University Center Patio. Aluminum cans, glass bottles, and plastic containers are gathered there.