Homewood Recycling is committed to responsible waste reduction and disposal in order to protect the health of our community and our environment.
We strive to increase the reuse, recycling and composting of waste generated on the Homewood campus and reduce the amount of waste incinerated. We do this by educating faculty, staff and students about how and why waste should be sorted, making waste segregation easy and convenient; and encouraging the reduction of waste generation through promoting reuse. We provide regular collection of paper, c
12/09/2024
Hey Jays! This is our official re-activation of the Homewood recycling facebook 🐦♻️ Look forward to 👀 more informative posts on how to practice being green 🤓🚮 and fun events with us next semester!!! 😊😆💚
10/24/2023
This week, we are highlighting writing to an elected official as a sustainable action. You can write to local officials to encourage composting programs or national representatives to increase funding for food waste reduction programs in the 2023 Farm Bill! Our actions remain the same every week, so feel free to complete the same action more than once! Keep completing actions for a change to win $15 in J-cash weekly and $50 in JHU merch at the end!
10/10/2023
Join our new Blue Jays Go Green Competition!! For the next three weeks, participants will learn about reducing food waste by completing challenges at the link in our bio. Feel free to complete the same challenge multiple times! Each week, we will raffle off a $15 gift card to a random participant. At the end of the competition, the top 3 participants will win $50 in JHU or sustainability merch. Good luck Blue Jays!!
09/26/2023
Welcome back Blue Jays! Swipe through for a quick reminder of how to sort your waste and why! ♻️
05/03/2023
The Free Food Alert app is now available on iOS! Download now to fight food waste on campus. Link in bio.
05/01/2023
If you ever get confused about how to sort your waste, join us for a focus group at Homewood on Tuesday May 2nd or at East Baltimore on Wednesday May 3rd from11:30am-1:00pm. Lunch will be provided.
The Office of Sustainability is updating the waste bin signs and would like your input. If you ever get confused about how to sort your waste join us for a focus group to share your thoughts on what might be confusing about the current signs and discuss how we can improve them to make recycling and composting easier for you. We encourage participation from faculty, staff, and students.
Register at the link in our bio.
04/21/2023
Free Food Alert app is now available on Google Play store!! Download now on android to fight food waste while enjoying free food giveaways. IOS app coming soon. Link in bio
03/30/2023
Have you signed up for Free Food Alert yet? Don’t miss out on free food! https://freefoodalert.com/
03/30/2023
Have you signed up for Free Food Alert yet? Don’t miss out on free food! Link in bio!
03/17/2023
🚨Beta launch alert 🚨
Introducing Free Food Alert - a new platform connecting you with free food on campus! Sign up today and never miss another food giveaway again!
03/13/2023
Our third and final theme is reduce & reuse! Complete these challenges to reduce your waste and earn points!
03/06/2023
Our week 2 theme is food! Complete these challenges to learn about reducing food waste and how to sort food packaging.
Go to a farmer’s market
Eat a plant-based meal
Compost a to-go box from campus
Compost a paper coffee cup or compostable plastic cup
Take the food packaging quiz
Use a reusable tupperware container to store food
Reduce food waste by eating everything on plate or eat leftovers
Volunteer with Blue Jays Perch on Saturday
Watch a video on composting
Visit our table