Office of Environmental Affairs

Office of Environmental Affairs
Tulane University, 104 Alcee Fortier Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118

Recycle at Work

recycling information for Tulane office & academic buildings

Uptown Campus

Paper recycling is now available in most uptown office and academic buildings. You must bring your own paper to your building's toter, where it is picked up once a week by recycling staff. Check for the location of your building's Paper Recycling Toter. We accept white paper, color paper, envelopes, folders, newspapers and magazines. Please do not put books, telephone books, or food containers in paper toters. To request a personal desk or copier sized bin, please e-mail recycle@tulane.edu. Extra toters can be requested for large quantities of office paper, such as moves. Call 314-2469.

Employees who would like to bring newspapers from home to be recycled are strongly encouraged to drop them off in the Newspaper Recycling dumpster on Ben Weiner drive. Newspapers collected there will be recycled into newpaper again (rather than a lower grade product).

Shredding services are now available from Tulane Recycling. To request a toter for sensitive documents, submit an IT to Facilities Services for paper shredding and recycling. A toter will be delivered to your office and picked up on request. There is a charge of $50 per toter.

Tulane recycles cardboard behind the scenes. Custodians place cardboard next to dumpsters for pick-up by Tulane Recycling, and large quantities are recycled at Bruff and the LBC. If your office has a large amount of cardboard resulting from a move or shipment, call 314-2469 to arrange a pick-up.

Computers & computer peripherals
Click here for information on our bimonthly computer recycling pickup service for uptown campus offices. Our computers are refurbished and recycled by the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council, a Baton Rouge non-profit that distributes many to schools.

Surplus furniture from Tulane offices can be brought to the Property Management office on Maple Street. Let them know you are coming by calling 865-5219. A newspaper recycling collection container is located behind the Aron Residences, near the entrance to Diboll Parking Garage.

Envelopes for recycling empty ink jet cartridges and a cell phone & rechargeable battery recycling collection box are located on the second floor of Alcee Fortier Hall.

Health Sciences Center

The facilities services department at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center is ready to start recycling white paper again on the downtown campus. Offices wishing to participate in the recycling effort need to request recycling bins by April 16.

The vendor handling the university’s recycling has deskside bins, copyroom-size bins and large rolloff bins, and can provide the university a limited number of bins at no cost. Once a week the custodial crew will empty the bins into a cart located on each floor for pickup by the vendor. Recycling will include all the downtown health sciences buildings.

To request bins, e-mail information to George Kemp, superintendent of building services. In the e-mail, include department name, contact name, phone number, room number for the requested bins, number of deskside bins and number of copyroom bins needed..

Computers, computer peripherals, and surplus office furniture from Tulane offices can be through the Property Management office on Maple Street. Click here for details. Our computers are refurbished and recycled by the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council, a Baton Rouge non-profit that distributes many to schools.