Stationery Re-Use Centre

Free Stationery thanks to UNSW and passionate student volunteers from the Environment Collective
 

How to obtain free stationery:

• Visit the Stationery Re-Use Centre during opening hours and help yourself, all stationery is free.

Location: Room QUAD1001A, Level 1, Quadrangle Building


Hours: 10:00am - 4:00pm Monday to Friday during sessions. In the instance that this is not open, a key for access can be borrowed from the CONTACT (student information service) office just up the adjacent stairs.
 

Stationery items in demand include:

• • in/out trays
  • folders
  • 2 ring binders
  • office paper used on one side only (non-confidential)
  • reusable envelopes (including internal mail envelopes)
  • plastic sleeves, dividers
  • glue, staplers
  • pens, pencils
  • scissors, rulers
  • hole punchers
  • calculators

How to donate excess / unwanted stationery – stationery not rubbish!

Internally

• Small items can be delivered using internal mail envelopes, fasten the envelope with tape or staples and send via P3 http://p3.unsw.edu.au/
• PLEASE NOTIFY the Stationery Re-use Centre prior to sending large quantities. We are happy to liaise with you in this instance and organise bulk pickup by passionate student volunteers.

Externally

• PLEASE NOTIFY the Stationery Re-use Centre prior to sending large quantities. We are happy to liaise with you in this instance and provide detailed information for your courier on how to find the centre.
  
  Parking and elevator in close proximity.

Want to volunteer/ get in contact? 

 Email the Stationery Re-use Centre co-ordinator at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  to find out more.

Benefits of the centre

What is UNSW, ARC and the Environment Collective doing to minimise environmental impacts?

By sending unwanted stationery to the Stationery Reuse Centre we are:

• Reducing hundreds of kilograms of perfectly good stationery being sent to landfill.
• Assisting staff and students to obtain free stationery.
• Reducing the extraction of raw material and the impacts associated with the production and distribution of new stationery.

In one year more than 500 students and staff visited the Stationery Reuse Centre claiming more than $20,000 worth of stationery including boxes of computer paper, folders, 2 ring binders, and over 6500 reusable envelopes.

History of the centre

• In 2000 the UNSW Environment Unit opened a Stationery Reuse Centre. As of 2005, responsibility for operational management of the Stationery Reuse Centre was transferred to the Student Environment Collective via the Student Guild now known as the SRC (Student Representative Council within ARC).