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“Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a metal is non-ferrous. Jack and I carry a small magnet on our persons for just these instances,” said Matthew Freed, <\/strong>the recycling crew leader at Eastern Mennonite University.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and his Facilities Management colleague Jack Hummel <\/strong>regularly collect scrap metal that’s leftover from renovation work on campus to haul out to the local scrapyard, and they use the magnets to know whether or not a bit of metal belongs in the ‘contains iron’ or ‘does not contain iron’ bin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These metals come from leftover wire from electrical work, leftover copper pipe from various construction\/renovation work on campus, electric motors taken out of different broken appliances and HVAC units, brass items such as old door hardware and old kitchen faucets, and discarded lead-acid batteries,” Freed said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, Freed had a non-ferrous scrap run of “epic” proportions, earning over $500 for their quarterly haul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This time we had a lot of brass for some reason and metal prices are higher than they have been in about 10 years,” he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most unique things they’ve hauled off so far was the old planetarium’s star projector assemblage during the Suter Science Center renovations last summer \u2013 an approximately 400-pound, steampunk-esque contraption<\/a> that was state of the art when first installed in 1968<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t exactly a cash cow for the university, though \u2013 more of a labor of love. Freed usually only gets around $100 per load of non-ferrous metal, but is committed to the practice as a good steward of the materials that come through EMU’s campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That commitment has shone through in the annual RecycleMania competition, as EMU has placed first for five years straight<\/a> among participating Virginia universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recycling staff and student workers at EMU collect 70 tons annually of recyclable materials from 24 campus recycling points using custom-built bicycles pulling specially-designed, eight-foot trailers that can each haul about 300 pounds at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Recycling scrap metal is just one of the facilities management initiatives that supports our goal of increased sustainability as an institution,” said Ed Lehman, <\/strong>director of facilities management. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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