Recycling

MIT has several recycling programs for various lab plastics, packaging, and so on. The up to date Facilities information site should be checked for details.

Currently, we recycle the following items in the following ways:

• Cardboard: fold up the box and place it near blue recycling bins, especially the one in the atrium.

• Hard plastics #1, #2, #5: place in the blue recycling bin.

• Pipette tip boxes and conical racks: place in the specific pipette tip/rack collection box. We schedule pickups through this Quickbase link. This box goes to a local startup who recycles these.

• Styrofoam: Leave clean coolers/boxes/lids made of Styrofoam next to blue recycling bins. Bag Styrofoam into clear plastic bags for pickup.

• Film plastic: Collect film plastics, such as pallete wrap, the plastic around filter tips into the labeled cardboard box under the 66-225 shelving, not into the standard blue recycling bins. The blue recycling bins go to the single-stream recycling provider, and films can gum up those machines. We can move our film to the plastic bag recycling in the basement room (66-017).

We do not recycle the following:

• Anything bio- or chemically-contaminated

• Gloves, even if they are clean.