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Recycling at Luther had its start in 1973. Since that year, the size and extent of the recycling initiatives have continually increased. Luther now recycles in nearly every office, classroom and residence hall on campus. Last school year an estimated 3,000 pounds of paper, 3,600 pounds of cardboard and 550 pounds of tin and plastic were collected weekly.
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The mysteries of recycling at Luther and in Decorah are finally answered in the FAQ style page. Don't see something that you'd like to see on our list? Make a suggestion under "What's Currently Happening!"
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The Personal Composting Program offers compost containers to students, staff, and faculty for their room or office. In the cafeteria, pre-consumer and post-consumer compost is collected. Compost is brought to the student garden, where it breaks down and is used as soil amendment on campus grounds.
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Stop by the Office Supplies Reuse Station located in the closet across from V372F in the the Sustainability/Environmental Studies office suite in the upper level of Valders from 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday, to drop off and pick up used supplies. It's a simple, free, sustainable way to get rid of the supplies you no longer need and find the supplies you want.
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A reuse sale selling a variety of items no longer needed by the College. The sale takes place on select days from 5:00-7:00 PM.
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Locations for Redeemable recyclables around campus. The money from redeemables in the Red Bins goes to Habitat for Humanity.
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Move-out days on college campuses across the country are notorious for the amount of perfectly usable, unwanted items being thrown into the trash. In the past, dumpster diving was the only method for redirecting usable items from the landfill. Luther's solution--Trash to Treasure.
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Known also as worm composting, is now in Brandt, Farwell, Larson, Ylvisaker, Olson, Norby, and Baker Village where a student, known as the worm keeper, is in charge of surveying the composting process.
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Consignment Shops offer a sustainable alternative to buying new. Visit these Decorah stores that offer used goods instead of buying new. You can also donate your used goods that you no longer want. Remember, one person's trash is another's treasure.
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GoPrint has been implemented as part of a campus-wide effort to reduce paper waste and rising costs. In the past, printing costs have been spread evenly over all users regardless of how much printing was done. GoPrint will enable LIS to shift the cost to those who use printing most and free funds for other purposes. Many institutions that have implemented printing systems have found that making users aware of the cost of their printing results in a significant decrease in printing, sometimes as much as 75%. Such a decrease would go a long way towards making sustainability at Luther College a reality.
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In January 2008 East Side School, a historic Decorah schoolhouse, was demolished. A local organization managed to retain some of the building materials from the school. Among those materials were 700 tons of brick and miscellaneous material. An estimated 20 percent of the total 700 tons is whole brick that can be reused. This is one of the largest recycling projects the Decorah area has seen.
