The Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling Sustainability Working Advisory Team (SWATeam) submitted a recommendation to start recycling plastics 3-7 at the F&S Waste Transfer Station (WTS). The WTS staff collects and sorts commodity recyclables from the campus waste stream, bales the sorted material, and sells the bales to recycling vendors to support the waste handling operations. The existing baler at the WTS is unable to handle the wider variety of plastics, so a new baler is required before this team can increase the types of plastics collected. Tracy Osby at the WTS identified an appropriate new baler (at a cost of approximately $300K), but the cost of installing the equipment is currently unknown. F&S would like to hire an engineering firm to identify the total construction/installation project costs, so that funding can be pursued to purchase and install the new baler, and thus expand the scope of plastic recycling on campus. This tema is requesting that the SSC provide funding for this initial “feasibility study.”