Bastyr Wins Green Award for Recycling

As noted in our news bit Bastyr Wins Green Award for Recycling, our campus has been recognized as one of King County’s Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduction for the second year in a row.

The University’s campus recycling and waste reduction initiatives include:

• Replacing garbage bins in the Bastyr Dining Commons with compost and recycling bins
• Establishing CFL bulb-collection stations and battery recycling programs
• Creating a Styrofoam packaging and “peanut” recycling program
• Implementing a composting program that diverts 51 tons of materials from landfills annually

King County’s Solid Waste Division says other workplaces can learn from Bastyr’s recycling and waste reduction program. Gary Nevius, facilities and capital projects manager, says the next phase in the University’s recycling and waste reduction efforts is to increase the amount of recycling and composting even more this fall.