Green Team would like to share our announcement about a collaborative re-purposing/recycling project on the BCC campus.

We now have a Discover Books donation bin on campus!

This bin can be used by anyone in the community and will accept any sort of book in just about any decent condition.  Your efforts are especially welcome right now; we just began the CR2ZW/RecycleMania season ( …more on this, soon!)  We hope to retain our tradition of a high score for the “Campus Race To Zero Waste”, a national competition.

Books collected via Discover Books are sold, donated to various charities, or turned into pulp (to help make house insulation, paper products, etc.).  For more details on Discover Books, please   check out their website,  and  https://www.discoverbooks.com/About-Us-Mission-and-Beliefs-s/2519.htm

“ Resale, Redistribute, Recycle ” is basic to the mission of Discover Books, and they even have a blog, to encourage people to read and connect – through books:  https://www.discoverbooks.com/Blog-List-of-All-Topics-s/102962.htm

Berkshire Community College’s new bin is located adjacent to the loading dock behind the Susan B. Anthony Building, next to the row of bins, at the east end of the row.  If you have any concerns before putting a book in, please feel free to contact Green Team.  If you place a book in on accident, have second thoughts about a textbook you might think you need to use again, or if you think anything else dropped in the door of the bin, feel free to let us know, we can help.

This collaboration between BCC Green Team, BCC Library, with help from Facilities, has been over a year in the making.  A huge thank you goes to Richard Kovarovic —  for his diligent work on getting this in place.  It was a long process — and he took the lead; helping Green Team tremendously.  Rich K. worked in the BCC Library until recently having left for a new role at the Dutchess Community College Library.

Please reach out if you have any questions.  Thank you for donating!

Thank you for participating in this new initiative.  Your help makes Green Team efforts

even more effective and impactful.