Cardboard: It's not trash

The University recycles tons of cardboard a year, mostly from cardboard boxes, but it needs your help:

• Please empty boxes completely; unfortunately, we can't recycle packing peanuts.
• Please break them down.
• No, we don't mean stomping on them, or even whining.
• Use a box cutter to slice the tape. Please use common sense--no unauthorized surgery on the office floors, please.
• Fold it flat.
• Stack your cardboard in a convenient place, perhaps next to your paper recycling barrel.
  In some buildings, you may place small amounts of carboard near your office door for pickup overnight.
• On days you get large deliveries or otherwise have collected a lot of material, give FIXT (x3498) a heads-up, and they'll arrange pickup.

Here are examples of cardboard:

• Cardboard boxes, of course.
• The backings from writing tablets.

And please remember:

• Please keep carboard recycling separate from trash and garbage.
• Please do not stack cardboard on a paper recycling barrel.
• Feel free to stack cardboard next to a barrel, but not on it. The two recyclables (cardboard and paper) have different storerooms, so they need to be handled separately.
• Housekeeping can handle small amounts of cardboard as part of their nightly rounds, but give them a break and call FIXT if you have a lot. That way housekeeping won't be overwhelmed.