NIC begins landmark recycling program

NIC is starting new single stream recycling program.

Instead of having to divide each recycling component, the new single stream recycling system will allow NIC students and faculty to recycle paper, plastic and aluminum all in one bin.

NIC has made an arrangement with Waste Management to be the first single stream recycling system in Coeur d’Alene.

This means that nine industrial-sized containers will be place at the NIC campus next to the trash bins which will allow the NIC campus to recycle all its components together.

The new single stream recycling system is available to NIC due to the building of a single stream facility in Spokane, and will begin on October 1.

In the past all recycling would need to be separated and shipped to the Portland recycling facility.

This new recycling program will be replacing the ASNIC program which has been doing the recycling for over ten years and currently has the green recycling bins all over the campus.  

ASNIC will no longer have to support this program as they currently collect all the recycling, separates them and takes them to processing facility.

The new single stream recycling system will also allow recycling to extend the recycling program beyond the students but incorporate it into offices as well.

Faculty will be designated recycling bins which they will then deliver those bins to the containers periodically.