The Notebook Project

The Recycled Notebook Project

 The Gonzaga Recycled Notebook Project takes cereal box-type cardboard (pressed board) and used, one-sided paper, and binds them into notebooks that are sold at CCASL and the campus book store. All profits fund Earthbound, where GU volunteers go to local elementary and middle school to run after school activities that are fun and environmentally educational.

Help Us!!! We want your paper and pressed board! Please bring your non-corrugated cardboard to CCASL or boxes placed around campus. Also, bring 8.5" X 11" paper that has been used on one side. Make sure there is no sensitive information (credit info, social security #, etc.). Corrugated cardboard has two layers with a squiggly layer connecting them. Corrugated cardboard can be placed in curbside recycling bins. In Spokane, cereal box-type cardboard, or pressed board, cannot be recycled in curbside recycling bins. If you have put this pressed board in your recycling bin and it disappeared, then it was most likely thrown in with the garbage. The person picking up your recycling should have left the pressed board with a note explaining why.

Recycling is energy intensive! The process of manufacturing use paper products into new products is difficult. Reusing is much simpler and underrated!