Recyclable materials stack up in the buildings on campus and then almost magically disappear every Tuesday and Thursday morning.

The two students responsible for this job are juniors Alex Coffey and Matt Ingram.

They arrive in the parking lot of the Collins Center each Tuesday and Thursday at 8 a.m. and drive around campus in a Baker University van to collect recyclables from different buildings.

"Well, getting up every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 8 o’ clock kind of sucks,” Ingram said. “But ya know it's kind of that rejuvenating feeling that when you're done, you just have all that energy so you can go throughout the rest of the day."

Coffey said that it is easier to do the work in the early morning because there isn't as much traffic in the buildings.

Going from building to building on campus, Coffey and Ingram interact with many people at Baker, and Coffey said that people are appreciative of the work that they do.

"Actually just today the head of security came over and said, 'you guys are doing a great job. I love the recycling people,'" Ingram said. "So just random strangers we don't know come up and say 'what's up' and they appreciate what we're doing, so that's kind of nice."