SURPLUS: Item Adoption Agency

This initiative means to re-home reusable items, no longer wanted or needed on-campus, with other Yale departments or local non-profits.

For more information about our Surplus program or to donate items, please contact the Yale Recycling Office at 203-432-6852.

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The goal of our program is to help Yale university meet, and expand on, its sustainability goals.

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STEP (Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership)

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YSEC (Yale Student Environmental Coalition)

Available Items
Updated 3/25/2009

binders, 3-ring. Many sizes and varieties. Quantity = hundreds.

cork board, 9" x 12" (cork area, frame is slightly larger). Cork has a few holes in it. Quantity = 1.

key box, 13" x 16", tan. Mounts on wall. Interior has slots for special key tags, not included. Key accessed. Quantity = 1.

padlocks, various with same key. New.

To have your items donated or to receive items from the list below contact Yale Recycling at 432-6852.

The program involves 40 New Haven nonprofit organizations, including:

  • Concepts for Adaptive Learning
  • Easter Seals
  • Camp S.E.A.L.
  • Christian Community Action
  • Youth Continuum
  • Salvation Army
  • Mercado Global
  • AIDS Project New Haven
  • Urban Renewal
  • Survivin' in Da Hood