Kansas University has received a $14,888 grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to promote workplace recycling.

Jeff Severin, who authored the grant as part of the university’s Facilities Operations staff, said the money will be used to buy about 1,200 recycling bins that can be placed beside the desks of KU workers in about six buildings.

“They’ll be similar to the trash can text to their desks, but will be blue and marked ‘We recycle,'” Severin said.

He said the goal was to make it more convenient for KU workers to recycle office paper, junk mail and other paper products. The custodial staffs will empty the containers into a centralized collection point in each building. Some of the grant money will be used to purchase those centralized collection containers.

Severin said KU still was determining a timeline for the project to begin, but it could be this summer. A decision also has to be made about which buildings will have the new containers.