Multimaterial Community Recycling Bins

More than 100 schools have campus recycling bins that generate money for their school monthly. The City is not currently adding new sites to the program. You can, however, request special HI5 fundraiser bins to support periodic collection campaigns for deposit beverage containers.

Schools in the program get $15 per ton for the paper and $75 per ton for mixed containers. Additionally, schools receive the 5¢ deposit for HI5 beverage containers in the bins. The amount of HI5 revenue return will be determined on a program-wide quarterly averaging.

The amount of money that each school receives depends on how much material is deposited into the bin on a monthly basis. A school that has hosted a bin for 15 or 20 years (and has a high level of community drop-offs), for example, can earn as much as $1400 a month!

Multi-material recycling bins also can be used to recycle campus generated waste, including classroom paper, newspapers, corrugated cardboard boxes and beverage containers and cafeteria food containers, potentially reducing your school's waste disposal costs.

Click here for more information (including locations) about the multimaterial community recycling bins.