We also run periodic reuse programs for household items. The Waste Stream Protects Our Environment. JMU Recycling provides pickup service with our employees and trucks. Our most valuable asset, though, is the help we recieve from the rest of campus. This includes the students, campus organizations, faculty, and staff that put recyclable material into our bins.
Housekeepers are especially valuable to our program, because they are our eyes and ears.
They let us know when our bins are full and how well our pickup schedules work. We take the materials to the city of Harrisonburg and private recyclers who consolidate materials from many smaller producers. Eventually, the material ends up at reprocessors who make our discarded material into new products. The new products are sold all over the world, but most stays here in Virginia. The reusable products stay here in Harrisonburg.