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Morgan Hartman, Sustainability Coordinator, wheels a new recycle station into place in the Suites residential complex.

All in the Hall continues expansion, now in 56 buildings

September 15, 2023

people placing new recycling containers in buildings

All in the Hall rollout promotes sustainability campuswide

January 27, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Student employee watering plants on campus

Landscape Services team digs in to keep campus beautiful

September 17, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Recycling illustration

Information sessions on pilot recycling program begin Nov. 17

November 16, 2020

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Nebraska's new recycling coordinator to make impact through education

October 30, 2020

The university will launch a new pilot program designed to make recycling processes universal in all campus buildings. It will be tested in eight buildings before being offered university-wide.

Pilot program aims at realigning recycling university-wide

September 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Society & Culture

Husker recycling project gets grant from Nebraska Environmental Trust

August 21, 2020

A cardboard ban at the Lincoln landfill begins in April.

Lincoln landfill cardboard ban begins April 1

March 28, 2018

Nebraska finished No. 9 nationally in the 2016 GameDay Recycling Challenge.

Huskers' game-day recycling lands in Top 10 nationally

March 15, 2017

A volunteer from the "Go Green for Big Red" hands out a recycling bag during a Husker home football game. Volunteers are being sought for the 2016 season.

'Go Green for Big Red' kicks off 8th season

August 25, 2016

UNL students Vivian Nguyen (left) and Cale Brodersen examine worms that are turning food waste into compost at Big Red Worms, a new composting operation in west Lincoln. | Troy Fedderson, University Communications

Composting program kicks off in the Nebraska Union

August 15, 2016

Leah Sandall, a lecturer in agronomy and horticulture, works at a UNL Extension pesticide container recycling site. The program, which has recycled more than 1,000 tons of the containers, is in its 23rd year.

Pesticide container recycling program enters 23rd year

May 1, 2014