LiveGreen has a lot of great things happening on campus. We could really use your help on a couple of initiatives:
- Since its installation in April 2014, the Little Free Library has had more than 3,000 books donated and given away at — and that doesn’t count all the books UNMC and Nebraska Medicine colleagues have placed directly on the shelves. We can still use more, so feel free to bring books in whenever you can. If you have a large donation, email LiveGreen and we’ll help transport them.
- Check out our supply exchange. There are lots of free research and office supplies waiting to find new homes while saving you money.
- Lab coat rebranding should be complete. If you would like to donate your old coat, we’ll remove the names and patches and find a school that needs it for art or science classes. Coats can be dropped off at the UNMC Bookstore in the Student Life Center, The Nebraska Medicine Company Store on the main floor of Clarkson, or by contacting LiveGreen.
- Thinking about using one of the Zipcars on campus? Be sure to sign up with Zipcar ahead of when you need it. You will receive a card that will allow you to reserve and use a car. Zipcars are for personal use only.
- On the 42nd and Dewey campus, recycle cardboard by breaking down boxes (all types and sizes) and leaving them for environmental services reps. Don’t place cardboard in paper recycling bins. Metal and plastic are comingled in the green bins. Plastic must be rigid/hold shape, regardless of number. Bottles, cups, lids, utensils, straws and frozen dinner trays can all be recycled. Plastic bags, cellophane and film cannot be recycled.
- You can recycle 9V, AA, AAA, C, & D single-use alkaline batteries from your work on campus. Please tag rechargeable batteries of any size and “button” batteries separately for pickup. Batteries from home cannot be recycled here.
- Is your TerraCycle box for writing instrument recycling filling up? Dump it into another box, contact energy@nebraskamed.com for a free shipping label, send it in, and keep your TerraCycle box. TerraCycle upcycles or recycles the items and makes a per-item donation to Nebraska Medicine.
- If you took the TravelSmart or Sustainability Survey, thank you. Results and gift certificate winners will be announced soon.
You should think about recycling plastic bags. I have numerous magazines that have plastic around them. When they bring our lab coats, they are all wrapped in plastic. When they send us our supplies, many types there is the plastic bubbling that protects the supplies. There seems there should be a way to recycle plastic (like the grocery stores do). Just wondering if that is an option.
That is a really great idea, Kathy!!
I agree Kathy, I'm always trying to find a place to put the plastic that comes with a lot of the things I purchase down here, and plastic lunch sacks etc. The more we can recycle the better!