Stationery Re-Use Centre

Free recycled stationery  for students and staff thanks to Arc and passionate student volunteers supported by the Enviro 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

                        Please note we are located on the campus of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Hours: 10:00am - 4:00pm Monday to Friday during session. In the instance that this is not open, a key for access can be borrowed from the Counselling office just up the adjacent stairs.
 

Stationery items in demand include:

• in/out trays

• folders

• notepaper

• 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

• and anything else that may be useful

• Please note we are no longer able to accept hanging files

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

We are always looking for more donations.

Internally

• Small items can be delivered using internal mail envelopes, fasten the envelope with tape or staples and send to

• Stationery Reuse Centre

  ARC

  The Blockhouse

  UNSW

  Anzac Pde

  Kensington

  2033

• 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.
  
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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 are 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.
• Recycling stationery to assist 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.

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). Now, the Stationery Reuse Centre is a formal volunteer program run by Arc at UNSW. The Stationery Reuse Coordinator manages a team of approximately 15 volunteers, and together they maintain stocks and publicise the Centre.