Recycling paper and using recycled paper products reduces energyuse, air and water pollution, and water use. It is important to recycle mixed office paper and avoid contaminating it with other materials because the collection of uncontaminated mixed office paper helps fund Oberlin's recycling program. This money helps cover our expenses. Americans throw away 30 million trees worth of newsprint every year. Newspaper in this area is sold to the Oberlin Canteen Corp., shredded and used for animal bedding.
Corrugated cardboard has a ribbed section sandwiched between two layers of paper .
If you have large quantities of such material, contact us to find out what you can do with it. This includes most magazines and catalogs, and generally any paper with a shiny finish. Drop off your glossy paper in the labeled bins at Kettering Breezeway, the Mailroom, the Con, and Rice front entrance way. Glossy paper, which includes most magazines and catalogs, has been coated with a starch or clay and therefore produces a low-grade recycled paper for which there is limited demand. As a result, there is a small market for recycling glossy paper.