Trash and Recycling
As a resident, you are required to keep the living space in the community clean and free from waste. Trash, food containers and unsanitary situations can attract pests and create unpleasant living situations for the community.
You are required to transport personal trash to the nearest dumpster. Trash must not be stored in excess within your room/unit.
- Visit Financial Responsibility for more about fees and charges.
- ResLife Recycling
- The ResLife Recycles program is available for campus residences.
- Common Areas. Recycle bins in lounges and reception desks accept paper, cardboard, and rinsed tin, aluminum cans, and plastic containers that are generated in those common areas.
- Your Area. Take recyclables generated in your personal space to a blue single-stream recycle dumpster downstairs. Return plastic bags to supermarkets or green octagon-shaped bins at Stout Hall or in the recycle bins in the Family and Graduate Student Housing Neighborhoods.
- Fees and Charges
- Trash or recyclables left in breezeways, hallways, balconies, lobbies, lounges and anywhere outside of your room/unit will be charged $25 per bag.
- About Cleanliness in Family and Graduate Student Housing
- As a resident, you are required to keep your living space clean and free from waste and clutter. Residents found to be living in unsanitary conditions will be asked to clean their living space or face disciplinary action (including loss of housing lease).
- Accumulating (also called litter, rubbish, garbage, refuse) and failing to clean creates situations that attract pests including rodents, cockroaches, ants and more. Activities such as slaughtering, butchering and processing meat are prohibited on the OSU campus.
- Never store materials or furniture that obstruct walkways in living spaces, hallways, or breezeways. This could delay someone from finding their way out of the building in case of an emergency.