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Published on December 19th, 2007

University of Idaho Students Recycle Household Items

KLEW features the efforts of the University of Idaho to keep student furniture and appliances out of dumpsters through a program called the Sustainable Campus Move-Out Team, which promotes reuse and recycling of these household products.

The University invested more than $10,000 to begin the program, and set up tents around campus for students to drop off their items. So far, about 60 to 70 percent of the items were clothing.

To learn more about recycling your household products, visit Earth 911’s Student Section.

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