School Spirit & Recycling: Making Your Bins Match Your Pride

One of the more effective methods of maximizing the potential of your campus recycling program is by tapping into your school spirit. Most students have a healthy amount of pride in their institute of learning and when you combine school spirit and recycling efforts, the results can be very powerful. Take Clemson University, for example. The school has set high ... [Read more]

Clemson University Uses Busch Systems’ “Mini Bins” in Effort to Reduce Waste

  In 2011 Clemson University put in place the Mini Bin Program. The idea behind this was to help the campus community understand that the amount of waste was minimal compared to the amount that could be recycled. Since its inception we have seen steady increased in our recycling rates and decrease in our waste and trips to the landfill. ... [Read more]

Recycling Smart: Let Your Recycle Bins Do the Talking for Your Program

Communicating your recycling program takes smart choices. It also takes smart recycling bins. By choosing containers with multiple options for clearly communicating your collection program, you will increase your success rates. The color of a collection container can go a long way toward letting people know what goes in the bin. As a rule, blue containers represent recycling bins, whereas ... [Read more]

Busch Systems’ Bins Help Sustain Aquinas College’s Recycling Efforts

Aquinas College, located in Grand Rapids (Michigan), has had an official commitment to campus sustainability since 2005. As a part of that extensive commitment, Aquinas signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment in September of 2008. In this pledge, Aquinas committed to becoming a zero waste to landfill campus by 2020.  The Center for Sustainability and Students Striving ... [Read more]

All Signs Point to Recycle: Sign Frames Are Essential to Communicating Your Recycling Program

Contamination is a big issue with many recycling stations; it’s a problem that needs to change. Garbage gets thrown into recycling bins all the time because people simply don’t know what goes where. That’s why it’s so important to properly communicate your program with signage on your containers. It lets the user know precisely what goes into which container without ... [Read more]