Additional Services
Battery Disposal | Special Collections and Office Clean Outs | Pallet Recycling | Special Materials | Cell Phone Recycling
Confidential Shredding
Please contact CU Recycling at cure@colorado.edu to have a confidential shredding pick-up request form emailed to you. An online form is coming soon.
CU Recycling provides a confidential shredding service to CU Boulder departments (no off-campus services provided). This service is for documents and records that need to be kept separate and destroyed. Shredded materials are recycled to their highest value. Collection of materials is limited to 10 boxes or 2 carts per pick up.
Pricing:
When CU Boulder departments request CU Recycling's shredding service, your materials are picked up by recycling staff, transported, and stored separately at our campus recycling facility. Note that until they are shredded, the containers for materials are not locked. The campus recycling facility is monitored by staff during open hours and locked outside of business hours.
CU departments who need higher levels of confidentiality (such as needing to meet FRPA or HIPA requirements) should contact an outside vendor for data destruction. For State of Colorado procurement options and procedures, and vendor options, Click Here.
If your department shreds your own materials in your office, CU Recycling can pick up your shredded paper for recycling as long as you follow these guidelines:
- We can accept only white and light colored shredded papers.
- Before shredding, first separate and remove dark and bright colored paper, plastic or any other non-paper item.
- If contaminants such as bright colors or plastics are mixed in with your shredded paper, we are not able to remove them so none of your paper can be recycled.
- Please bag and seal your shredded paper into a clear bag, tied shut, before placing it in or next to a campus recycling bin.
- This allows us to keep your shredded paper separate from the rest of our materials.
- If shredded paper ends up on our recycling lines, it binds up the equipment and inhibits the recycling process.
Battery Disposal
Environmental Health & Safety accepts sealed and non-leaking batteries from pagers, cell phones, laptops, etc. from University operations. Dispose alkaline batteries as trash. Contact 492-7845 for more info.
Special Collections and Office Clean Outs
If you are cleaning out files, storerooms, etc. and have more recyclables than the current recycling station can handle, please call 492-5321 to arrange for special containers and collections.
Pallet Recycling
Used wooden pallets are collected from the main campus loading docks. Please place your pallets out of the way. Do not put pallets in the trash. Call 492-5321 for a special pickup.
Special Materials
Send Tyvek envelopes, transparencies, disks and CDs to Campus 209. Toner cartridges and ink jets can be dropped off for recycling at CU Recycling's office in University Memorial Center room 355, or at the campus Intermediate Recycling Facility ( map )
Cell Phone Recycling
As cell phones are constantly being upgraded, the out-dated phones need to be disposed of in a responsible and environmentally friendly manner. CU Recycling has formed a partnership with The Wireless Alliance to reuse and recycle old cell phones.
To recycle your old cell phone on the CU campus, the 3 main options are:
- Drop Off Location: University Memorial Center (UMC): drop off box across from Baby Doe's
- Drop Off Location: Darly Commons in Williams Village: drop off box by the main office
- Drop Off Location: Norlin Library: drop off box in main lobby of east entrance
- Send your cell phone to: 209 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309 (If you are on campus, you can use campus mail, sent to 209 UCB)
Types of Materials Accepted
- Any Cell Phone, working or broken
- Cell Phone Chargers
- Cell Phone Batteries
- I Pods, MP3 Players, Portable CD Players
