Additional Services
Battery Disposal | Special Collections and Office Clean Outs | Pallet Recycling | Special Materials | Cell Phone Recycling
Confidential
Shredding
At your request, CU Recycling crews will collect
your sensitive documents and take them to our on-campus facility for
shredding and recycling with a guarantee of confidentiality. A certificate
of confidential destruction can be provided.
CU Recycling's confidential shredding service is available to CU-Boulder campus departments only.(More info and request form)
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 2-7845 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 2-5321 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 2-5321 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
- 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
