Campus recycling options expanded MIT's effort to make recycling convenient for the community has expanded over the summer. A container for newspaper recycling was also delivered to Building E15. The Institute normally generates an average of 280 tons of trash and recycles 20 tons each month.
All money saved from recycling goes into expanding the recycling program.
In addition, every ton of newspaper recycled saves 17 trees and 3 cubic feet of landfill space, according to Jennifer Combs, recycling coordinator.