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UK celebrates America Recycles Day

Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day, a day to celebrate the impact and importance of recycling. University of Kentucky Recycling will participate in this national celebration with six installations across campus that highlight how recycling helps...

Katherine Johnson
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UK Recycling introduces mini hanging landfill containers

UK Recycling is committed to becoming a zero-waste campus by 2030, meaning that 90% of all discarded waste will be diverted from the landfill by recycling, composting, donating, or other means. To reduce the amount of recyclable material ending up...

Elizabeth Hellmann
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Introducing UK Recycling’s Waste Wizard

UK Recycling is excited to announce a new addition to our website, the Waste Wizard! With this new tool, learning about what is recyclable at UK is quicker and easier than ever before. The Waste Wizard functions as a search engine which allows users...

Elizabeth Hellmann

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Leavening not Icing

This is my 19th year of working in Sustainability at the University of Kentucky and I am so excited about the breadth and depth of the initiatives that our faculty staff and students are leading. We have worked hard to...

Shane Tedder
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Away Is Not a Place

“Just throw it away.” I’m sure that’s a common thing you’ve heard or even said, and it’s usually in reference to what we think of as being ‘trash’. It’s an interesting sentence since...

Joanna Ashford
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