Blue for cans and bottles. Dark green for newspapers. Furthermore, the tan bins will now sport more colorful interiors, as they can now be used to recycle colored paper as well as white paper. The changes in the campus' recycling options are in response to Yale community members' expressed desire to recycle colored as well as white paper, says C.J. May, the University's recycling coordinator. The decision to create a separate bin for glossy paper was based primarily on economics, he explains.
Colored paper yields a lower dollar figure, and glossy paper even lower.
Therefore, a mixture of white and colored paper would bring a higher return than a mix of colored and glossy paper. The bottom of a container will indicate whether it is made out of No. 1 or No. 2 plastic, says Mr. May, who has spent the past several weeks coordinating with students delivery of the grey recycling bins to campus buildings. In addition, he has been working with Campus Mail administrators to help inform the Yale community about the mail reduction program, which helps curtail unwanted paper at its source, he says. If people get something they want, then read, then want to discard, we want them to recycle. If they get something they don't want, we want them to reduce it.