Paper Cuts

It’s different now at the university. The in-plant sends all of its trim to a centralized recycling center, which transports all campus waste to a recycler.

“There’s no compensation for the in-plant, but it doesn’t cost us anything, either,” he notes.

Some in-plants do get compensated for paper sent to a recycler. Last year, the in-plant at the University of Texas-Austin generated $44,000 in revenue from recycling paper and metal plates. The California Office of State Publishing earned $289,000 over a 12-month period (and the recycler installed its own baling system).