The directors of EHS offices have created a roles and responsibilities matrix, assigning one position responsibility for each of the hundreds of EHS regulatory programs governing MIT's work and for each of the EHS initiatives. The EHS Team maintains a close working relationship with MIT Medical, in order to prevent injuries and to follow up when injuries occur to ensure that appropriate measures are taken in response. By developing a comprehensive and integrated system, the regulated community at MIT will not have to work under duplicative or separate systems addressing environmental, health and safety compliance and good practices. Many members of the MIT community have been interested in recycling and other sustainability initiatives over the years. To achieve the best results, however, a coordinated approach, involving participation by the entire MIT community, is necessary.
Faculty is consulted as well.
The MIT community can recycle white paper, colored paper, magazines, newspapers, folders, small cardboard pieces, and any paper other than carbon paper in desk-side recycling bins and in common area blue topped or black, paper recycling bins. Paper cannot be contaminated with food. These commingles must be empty, but they need not be clean. Most large paper users on campus have successfully converted to recycled paper, and the Copy Center uses recycled paper as its standard paper. The Office Depot catalogue for MIT features recycled paper as MIT's perferred paper and also features other green goods, such as remanufactured printer cartridges.