- Recycling Guidelines PDF
- Recycling at DU
- University Sustainability Council
- Building Green: The Frank H. Ricketson Law Building
Just a few of the law school's "green" features:
- Designed to use 40-percent less energy than a comparable conventional building
- Each floor has an area to recycle glass, paper and plastics
- Showers are available for students, faculty and staff who walk or ride their bikes
- Building materials contain a high percentage of post-consumer recycled materials, including structural steel, copper roof, carpeting and acoustic tiles, resulting in more than 50-percent of all construction wastes being diverted from landfills and recycled
- Natural groundwater is collected and recycled for landscape irrigation, reducing the building’s use of treated city water. Native plants and special irrigation technology have resulted in result in 70-percent less water used for landscaping