Ecologue

America Recycles Day is “a nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States.” Come celebrate on Friday, November 15th between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm in the center of the Memorial Union Quad by taking the recycling pledge – help OSU cover a dumpster with signatures! Also play the sorting […]

In celebration of Local Eats Week, multiple restaurants in the local area are currently offering special $6 plates of delicious, locally-sourced food. From October 18 until the 24, restaurants will have a special dish available that is made with local ingredients from the six surrounding counties of Linn, Benton, Lane, Lincoln, Marion, and Polk. The […]

The OSU Sustainability Office and Energize Corvallis have teamed up to help answer some burning questions. Did you know that by placing a 6-inch pan on an 8-inch burner you are wasting about 40% of the heating energy being used to prepare food?  …or that properly inflated tires save about 3% of your fuel use, the […]

The Repair Fairs are back! Come to the Recycling Warehouse at 644 SW 13th Street on Thursday, October 24th between the hours of 6 and 8 pm for our first Repair Fair of the year. Bring your broken items and questions and volunteers will help you learn how to repair your things, and attend demos […]

October 16th is World Food Day – a global effort to end world hunger. At OSU’s Student Sustainability Initiative, we’re focusing our efforts not on new modes of farming, but what we can do right now to have an impact. We came up with the Clean Plate Challenge to call attention to the food that […]

Who are the Waste Watchers? Waste Watchers is a joint group between Campus Recycling and the Student Sustainability Initiative whose mission is to engage students and the community in waste reduction at OSU by providing educational programming, meaningful opportunities for action, and empowerment of future leaders. Meet some of our members in these other blog […]

Learn about the Waste Watchers, a joint volunteer group between Campus Recycling and the Student Sustainability Initiative, at our first event of the year – the Meet ‘n’ Eat. The mission of the Waste Watchers is to engage students and the community in waste reduction at OSU by providing educational programming, meaningful opportunities for action, […]

Campus Recycling is now recruiting a Student Graphic Designer to join our outreach team, to design and implement print and digital media for the purpose of educating and engaging the OSU community in recycling and waste reduction. Job Description Job duties include: Graphic design (constitutes 60% or more of work hours): Designing, ordering and distributing […]

This weekend marks the return of football season – the first game being on Saturday, August 31 – and with it comes an opportunity to help further reduce waste! To help, we’ve compiled four easy ways you can be the best beaver fan: Pack it in, pack it out: While tailgating, consider bringing trash and […]

Come to the OSUsed Store’s special 3-Day Clearance public sale on Wednesday through Friday, August 21 through 23 at 12:00-4:00 pm each day. In addition to offering these extended days and times, many specially marked in-store items will be 25 to 75% off! The OSUsed Store is located at 644 SW 13th Street in Corvallis […]