Campus Envelope Procedures

The Recycling Program is now handling the redistribution of used campus envelopes in light of MStores’ closing.

If you have used campus envelopes you would like collected:

• Units with excess campus envelopes can either:
  • Send them to Waste Management Services, 1655 Dean Road, 2159 or
  • Schedule a pick up from the dock on the Ann Arbor campus by emailing Recycle (get address) (38.103.63.17). It will be up to building staff to get the envelopes to the building’s dock.
• Waste Management Services staff will collect the envelopes from the dock.

If you want used campus envelopes:

*Approximately 1 month ago, we began sending envelopes through Campus Mail to those who requested them. As was stated at the time, this was a pilot program. We regret to inform you that the pilot has ended and, for the foreseeable future, we will not be able to send envelopes to requestors through Campus Mail.

• Units wishing to receive used campus envelopes can pick them up from the Waste Management Services office, located at 1655 Dean Road, on UM’s North Campus, just south of Property Disposition. There will be no charge for the envelopes.
• Please note that envelopes will not be packaged in the same fashion as they were when they were distributed by MStores.

We need your help to make this program work!
If departments don’t request envelopes, then we’re not helping the environment! We have limited space in our warehouse, so if we get more envelopes than we have room to store, we will have to recycle them, defeating the purpose of the program. You have the power to make this work!

Some facts about UM campus envelopes:

• 500,000 new campus envelopes are purchased each year by departments.
• New envelopes cost approximately $0.50 each!
• Using 55 envelopes as many times as possible saves 1 tree.
• If we used all 500,000 new campus envelopes purchased in a year to the fullest extent, we could save almost 9,100 trees!