Recycling at CSU San Marcos!

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"RecycleMania" Victories for CSUSM!                                   

RecycleMania officials have announced Cal State San Marcos as the winner in the important Per Capita Classic Competition and the Targeted Materials Category for Paper. CSUSM also placed 3rd in the Grand Champion contest while setting a University record recycling rate of 82.6%. 523 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada participated in this year's Tournament.

A big "Thank You" goes out to the entire Cal State San Marcos campus community for another sterling effort during this year's just concluded RecycleMania 2013.


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 AB75. 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!