Purdue University part of glove-recycling initiative
The program is run through Kimberly-Clark Professional, a manufacturer of paper and cleaning solutions for industry and consumers, and also recycles masks, garments and other apparel from universities and pharmaceutical companies.
According to Randy Kates, senior director of global scientific business at Kimberly-Clark, gloves comprise about 20 percent of some institutions' total waste streams.
Most of the recyclable gloves come from undergraduate labs in the Brown chemistry building because those gloves don't have hazardous material on them, she said.