Climate Action in the Basket
The University of Mannheim is launching a new recycling program for sustainable towel paper: “TorkPaperCircle” aims to save up to 40 percent of the CO2 produced by waste at the university in the future.
Credit: Nida Karuserci
Used, collected, recycled: used paper towels are collected separately in the sanitary facilities and 98 percent of them are recycled into new towel paper. The new towel paper dispensers required for this were installed gradually, and the old dispensers were recycled.
In future, only paper from the dispensers may be disposed of in the wire baskets for used towel paper. Extra garbage cans will continue to be provided for other waste.
Text: Fabio Kratzmaier / August 2025