Ecologue

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]