CSULB Recycling Center

Associated Students, Inc.'s Recycling Center has accomplished significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions by providing recycling services for the CSULB, as well as the Long Beach, community.

In a recent ASI Press Release boasting the achievements of the Recycling Center, the ASI Recycling Center coordinator Lee Johnson compared the center's impact of green house gas reductions to the removal of 449 passenger vehicles from the road for a year. In the last year, the Recycling Center saved nearly 3,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by recycling over 1.7 million pounds of material.

Located on the north side of campus by the Walter Pyramid, the student-run center collects and processes cans, bottles, cardboard and other recyclables from the campus grounds.

In the past year, the center promoted awareness to the CSULB public of its services by selling shirts with the slogans "Recycle or Die" and "I am part of the solution" to students who recycled or donated at the center. The campaign successfully garnered a 20 percent increase in material collection since the previous year.

The Recycling Center also gets involved with serving the community by being proactive on campus. While new student residents moved in to the dorms over Labor Day weekend, the center helped recycle, collect and sort cardboard, Styrofoam and other accumulated recyclable waste from the student residents. Over the weekend, the center and other campus volunteers recycled 40 cubic yards of Styrofoam and 7,347 pounds of cardboard.