Recycling at CSU San Marcos!

Recycling Mission

Welcome to our world of Recycling!

At Cal State San Marcos, we strive to make recycling as easy and convenient as possible for the campus community. By recycling, we can help to protect and improve our environment.  Recycling allows items normally disposed in landfill sites or incineration plants to be remade into many useful products.

CSUSM has met all statutory waste diversion targets as set by state mandate AB57.  Since January, 2004, the campus has comfortably exceeded the compliance rate of 50%.  We have, also, won seven straight RecycleMania national intercollegiate recycling competitions.  It is our  ultimate vision and strategic mission to someday achieve zero waste on campus.  To reach this goal, we continuously seek to identify  opportunities and implement innovative programs  that will increase waste diversion, also, keeping the focus on waste reduction.  The proper approach to zero waste should be reduce, reuse, and then recycle!