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Are you an OSU student looking for work? Join the recycling and surplus team! Campus Recycling and Surplus Property are currently hiring approximately 5 student employees to assist with our operations, primarily working on recycling and surplus hauling. Duties include recycling and surplus pick-ups, loading and unloading materials, sorting recyclables, pricing surplus items, etc. We […]

Good news: at yesterday’s OSU Finance & Administration staff picnic, we diverted 91% of waste (by volume)! We diverted an estimated 180 gallons of recycling and compost from the landfill – that’s equivalent to 14 kitchen trash cans! Thank you to the picnic organizers, waste station volunteers and attendees for helping us walk our (sustainability) […]

Volunteers stood around a large table, sorting through the items left to charity by the students on campus. More donations rolled forward in orange carts, slightly damp from the heavy rain outside. Filling the carts to the brim, the donations came in many different states: from fresh unopened food, to well-worn shoes and dusty rugs. […]

Come to the store for our Wednesday evening and/or Saturday sale where many items will be marked 25, 50 or 75% off! Public sale times: Wednesday, July 3, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. Items will be marked with red, white and blue tags: all white tags 25% off, […]

Are you a waste reduction enthusiast? Join the 2013 da Vinci Days Green Team and gain free admission to the 25th Annual da Vinci Days Festival running from July 19th to the 21st! OSU Campus Recycling, in collaboration with the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition‘s Waste Reduction team, Republic Services, and da Vinci Days are coordinating recycling […]

This special day and time – Saturday, June 22nd at 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. – provides an opportunity for both new and existing customers to check out the OSUsed Store on a weekend for extended hours, and shop the extra household items we don’t typically have in stock. Available merchandise will include extra household […]

Did you know that in 2012 over 20,000 pounds of material was diverted from the landfill and given to local non-profits as residents moved out of their res. halls? Our goal this year is 22,000 pounds, and you can help,…whether or not you live in a hall! How You Can Help LIVE IN A RESIDENCE […]

Come to the Recycling Warehouse at 644 SW 13th Street on Wednesday, May 29th between the hours of 5:30 and 7:30 pm for our last Repair Fair of the year! Bring your broken items and questions; volunteers will help you learn how to repair your things. Save money, save natural resources and be part of […]

This is a guest post by Jakob Barry of Networx.com. Moving out of the dorms is an interesting time because so many students are vacating them on or around the same day. Hundreds, if not thousands of undergraduates and grad students are in transition looking for parking spaces, lifting items from point A to point […]

Come to the OSUsed Store on Wednesday, May 22nd between 12:00 and 3:00 p.m, where all dotted merchandise will be 75% off, and white tag items (housewares) will all be 50% off! The OSUsed Store is located at 644 SW 13th Street in Corvallis (view on Google Maps). We will have many items for personal […]