{"id":49512,"date":"2021-06-02T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=49512"},"modified":"2021-06-02T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:28:20","slug":"historic-scrap-metal-run-for-the-stalwart-heroes-of-the-emu-recycling-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/historic-scrap-metal-run-for-the-stalwart-heroes-of-the-emu-recycling-team\/","title":{"rendered":"黑料正能量 recycling team notches historic scrap metal run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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 黑料正能量.\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 黑料正能量’s campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That commitment has shone through in the annual RecycleMania competition, as 黑料正能量 has placed first for five years straight<\/a> among participating Virginia universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Recycling staff and student workers at 黑料正能量 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":" “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, the recycling crew ... read more about 黑料正能量 recycling team notches historic scrap metal run<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":49513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5583,14715,17562,5708],"tags":[15112,17827,17527],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-49512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-campus-life","category-digest","category-sustainability","tag-ed-lehman","tag-jack-hummel","tag-matthew-freed","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n