Recycling at Knox

Recycling is one of the most direct ways you can make a positive contribution to sustainability at Knox. By reducing the use of newly purchased goods and materials, you help reduce demand for their production, distribution, and disposal, and help lower operating costs at the same time.

Knox College has had a recycling program since 1993. Working with Knox Advocates for Recycling and Environmental Support (KARES), Facilities Services has broadened the kinds of materials that can be recycled at Knox.

Knox works with a local service that picks up our recyclable materials and transports them to a facility in Seaton, Illinois, where the items are sorted. From there, the materials are disbursed to local recycling centers. Knox currently produces 55.05 tons of recycling per year, 1.05 tons per week.

Every year Information Technology Services invites all campus constituents to bring obsolete computer equipment to a central collection point. The equipment is disposed of by donating it to local schools or charities or by sending it to a company that will refurbish what can be salvaged and dismantle and recycle what can't. This is done at no cost to the College and it prevents a lot of reusable and recyclable material from winding up in landfills.