About 600 pounds of shredded paper sit inside gray plastic bins on the floor and shelves inside a dusty, dark warehouse in the southwest corner of campus.

A garage door opens as a pair of workers begin unloading the day's haul.

In the middle of it all is Bill Clark.

A truck driver for MSU's Office of Recycling and Waste Management, Clark spends his days collecting materials faculty and students recycle - office papers, pizza boxes, phone books, magazines, brochures, newspapers and books.

He said about 60 to 70 percent of the paper that can be recycled is actually collected - the rest gets thrown out with the trash.

"A lot of people aren't aware most buildings on campus have recycling facilities," he said. "Or it's not something they've been taught to do."

For others, it's just easier to throw paper away, Clark said.

But Pete Pasterz, the recycling office's manager, said MSU collects about four tons of sorted recyclable paper each day.

The paper is taken to a warehouse behind University Printing and sent to businesses that remake the paper into more paper, paper towels, toilet paper and cardboard.

The paper is also made into roofing shingles, which are basically recycled paper smeared with tar and sprinkled with gravel, Pasterz said.

A ton of used white paper would cost $48 to dispose of in a landfill but sells for $100 to the companies who remake it into products, Pasterz said.

"We avoid that cost and are saving the university money," he said.

Pasterz said the university deals mainly with paper products right now because of space and monetary constraints.

"We're unable to expand because of our budget and