Sorting stations
Paired bins accept mixed recycling, organics and landfill waste with consistent labels in academic and residential buildings.
Reuse
Surplus exchange, residence-hall donation, repair events and reusable dining containers keep usable material in circulation.
Special materials
Electronics, batteries, lamps, chemicals and confidential paper use dedicated collection rather than standard bins.
Sort at the bin
Every academic and residence building uses the same three-stream stations with the same labels, so the habit transfers. Organics from the food hall and teaching kitchens go to a commercial composter and, in season, to the campus garden.
Reuse before recycle
A surplus-equipment exchange, the residence-hall move-out donation drive, campus repair events and reusable dining containers keep usable material in circulation. Lab and studio materials have their own reuse shelves in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building.
In and around Porter Falls
Porter Falls sits on the Porter River, and the university's oldest sustainability commitments are about water: the Millrace restoration, the rain gardens between Founders Hall and the Union, and a stormwater plan shared with the city. The campus climate goal is carbon-neutral operations, and progress is posted publicly each year rather than announced once.
The practical details
Bins: Paired: mixed recycling, organics, landfill. Move-out: Donation drive with a regional nonprofit partner. Special items: Electronics, batteries, lamps, chemicals: dedicated collection. These specifics can shift from term to term, so confirm anything time-sensitive — a deadline, an appointment, an eligibility rule — before you count on it.
If you have a question
This is handled by Office of Sustainability (Founders Union, Room 015). Call (715) 555-0240 or email sustainability@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or use MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If another office turns out to own the question, they will pass it along rather than send you back to the beginning.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.