Go green for Homecoming with MSU Community Reuse Days

It’s time to clear out some space in your garage, attic, and basement before winter, because we're giving the entire MSU community a green option for getting rid of unwanted items.

Homecoming week, starting October 17th, will be our next biannual Community Reuse Days event, where all reusable items will be accepted from MSU faculty, staff, students, alumni, and retirees.

Typical goods include sporting equipment and apparel, non-upholstered furniture, electronics, appliances, media, knick knacks, and a wide assortment of other objects. Items received at the event will be recycled, resold, or donated to a non-profit organization. As with everything collected by the MSU Surplus Store & Recycling Center, sending material to the landfill is always a last resort.

This particular Community Reuse Days event will be the first time that e-waste (non-functioning electronic parts) recycling and confidential document shredding will be offered for free. However, it should be noted that the event is for individuals, not businesses.

Proceeds from re-sellable items will support our continuing increase of materials collected from campus and the community. The MSU Recycling Drop-off Center recently started accepting all colors of glass, and we hope to have solutions for recycling polystyrene (Styrofoam) and alkaline batteries in the future.

Donations will be accepted at the north dock of the MSU Surplus Store & Recycling Center from 7:00am to 3:00pm from Monday, October 17th through Friday, October 21st. Call 517-355-1723 for more details.

African Masks

Check out this Africa Past & Present podcast with Michigan State Museum director Dr. Gary Morgan. He talks about African masks and the Great Dance (Gule Wamkulu) in Chewa society, Malawi. Discusses origins and characters of Gule Wamkulu, and gender, political, educational and health aspects of masks and their future in a globalizing world. African masks are some of the unique things you can find at the MSU Surplus Store.

Landscape Plant Sale

Hundreds of plants will be available starting September 23 until they are gone. These plants need a good home, and now is a great time to plant!

There are many different unique species of exterior plants (and small trees) to choose from. Plants range from $19 to $29, depending on size.

These plants will be available starting:

Friday September 23rd, from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm

Here is a sampling of some of the plants we will have:

Fragrant Abelia, Yellow Buckeye, Aronia, Bluebear, New Jersey Tea, Flowering Quince, Alaskan False Cypress, Summerweet, Artic Sun Dogwood, Forsythia, Kentuck Coffe Tree, Kyushu Hydrangea, Inkberry Holly, Afterflow Michigan Holly, Sea Green Juniper, Blue Star Juniper, Leptodermis, Meyer Spruce, Dorothy Wycoff Pieris, Red Mill Pieris, Sycamore, Oriental Arborvitae, Bur Oak, Chuckles Rose, Pink Knock Out Rose, Spirea, Pink Parasols Spirea, Josee Lilac, Meyeri Lilac, Repandens Yew, Dense Yew, Greenwave Yew, Green Giant Arborvitea, Holmstrup Abrobitae, Steeplechase Arborvitae, Autumn Jazz Viburnum, Pink Dawn Viburnum, Dawn Viburnum, Alleghany Viburnum, Polka Weigela, and many more!