Well placed and labeled bins encourage students, staff and faculty to recycle. Admiral Maintenance ensures that the materials in the bins arrives at the staging areas . Staging areas are located in three different sites on the Lake Shore Campus and at nearly every building loading dock at the Water Tower and Medical School Campus. A contract with Waste Management allows for separate pick up of the recyclable materials which are taken to the Hooker Street facility for sorting and recycling. An average of 7500 pounds of paper at the Lake Shore Campus is recovered monthly.
Recycling requires education of the community to participate.
Aluminum can recycling over the period 1990-1993 shows how initial efforts can fall off as awareness falls off. At the end of this period Loyola revamped recycling. Chemical Waste Loyola has worked aggressively through the teaching departments at the Lakeside Campus to reduce the total amount of material used in classrooms, thus reducing the outgoing stream of chemical waste. In 1992 Loyola affiliated with Mundelein College and retired the chemistry labs in the Sky building requiring. In 1996 the Chemistry department retired a large volume of inactive chemicals.