Students are seeing a strong emphasis on recycling with the Environmental Health and Safety Office’s new residence hall recycling program.
The office’s staff will place door hangers in residence halls with information on how to request recycling containers for individual rooms beginning Sept. 1. The small blue plastic containers will allow students to separate recyclable materials from trash before they take their waste to the trash bins. Each hall has available recycling receptacles near the trash bins. These recycling containers are for plastic, aluminum and paper. All other waste should go into the available trash bins.
Philosophy junior Ravenna Romack, Arlington Hall office assistant, said she is displeased with the current state of the recycling program. Although there are bins for cans, bottles and newspapers, Romack thinks the program is lacking in a number of aspects.
“The move-in recycling dumpsters are only available for a week or two, and there are not nearly enough recycle bins around the hall, in my opinion,” she said.
Undeclared freshman Gira Desai supports and appreciates the university’s concern for the environment.
“By the university strongly encouraging a recycling program, more people will become aware of our planet’s needs,” she said.
Students in the residence halls can also recycle empty printer ink cartridges using plastic bags with pre-paid postage which are available in every dorm. The bags may be left with their hall directors or may be dropped into a mailbox.
Representatives from the Environmental Health and Safety Office talked with students about the recycling program during the Mav Cookout and Activities Fair on Wednesday on the University Center mall. A display featured President James Spaniolo endorsing and acknowledging the importance of the recycling program.
Free gifts made of recycled products were distributed to students to demonstrate the ways materials may be substantially reused for other purposes. The gifts included “mood” pens and pencils, “UTA Recycles” mouse pads and small picture frames. Students also received fliers illustrating the different recycle bins on campus and where those bins may be found. |
Source: theshorthorn.com |
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