You may know that the University of Rochester has partnered with Brockport-based recycling company Sunnking for electronics recycling, including the annual roundups. But recently that partnership has expanded into new territory—kitchen equipment amon other things.
Due to the normal wear and tear of everyday use, much of the kitchen equipment the University has owned throughout the years has been damaged beyond repair or outlived its useful lifespan. Previously, this equipment was put into storage underneath the Danforth dining center, but with the recent renovations to the dining center in Wilson Commons, the University was left with a surplus of both working and non-working kitchen equipment with no place to store it. 
Fortunately, the University was able to work with Sunnking to save this equipment from the dumpster and keep it out of the landfills. Two full truckloads of kitchen equipment, including everything from refrigerators to pizza ovens to refrigerated sandwich cases to hotboxes, were taken to Sunnking’s recycling facilities. There, the equipment will be refurbished, resold, and/or scrapped for the metal, especially the stainless steel. In total, Sunnking picked up 5,460lbs of material from the University.
This arrangement is beneficial not only to the University and Sunnking, but also to the environment. Additionally, the University was spared the hefty disposal fees that throwing away all this equipment would have incurred. University Manager of Contract Services Todd Ferrin, who helped facilitate the project, notes that the University also now has free storage space under Danforth to store working equipment to be used as a backup in case current equipment needs servicing. Also, Sunnking provided a rebate for the materials that paid for the cost of moving the equipment and also allowed the University to receive some money back on materials that were purchased years ago. And now, instead of sitting in a landfill, this equipment will be recycled or reused.
River Campus Events Service Coordinator Kimberley Taylor, who arranged the project, was pleased by how “attentive and responsive Sunnking was… they’ve been wonderful throughout this whole process.”
For the future, the University and Sunnking are already planning to expand even further: pool equipment. The metal cables that hold the plastic lane markers will soon be replaced, and now there’s no need for them to be thrown away!
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There are a lot of benefits when recycling kitchen equipment. One of those is for the environment and another is having saved budget for new equipments. Although sometimes, equipments are damaged beyond repair, they can be of useful on other fields. Such as in art, or that the prime raw materials used for manufacturing these kitchen equipments can be made into a new product. Thumbs up to the university.