2008 Woodie Awards
Campus concerned with recycling efforts
Maria Fedorova
Issue date: 4/30/07 Section: News
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SCSU recycled 117.66 tons of cardboard and paper and 12.5 tons of commingle (pop bottles, glass beverage bottles and aluminum cans) in 2006, said Karla Stavos, building services manager at Building and Grounds Management.
"We do try to recycle as much as possible on campus," Stavos said.
She noted recycling has progressed during the past several years.
SCSU's student handbook is encouraging students "to recycle white paper, newsprint and aluminum cans at university established recycling stations and to limit their use of products which have a toxic effect on our environment."
Stavos said classrooms in academic buildings have three containers.
"One is either black or gray which is meant for trash, one (blue) will be mentioned for paper and one will be mentioned for pop containers, glass and plastic," she said.
Stavos said students have to make sure the lids are off the recyclables and put in the garbage while the empty containers go to the recycle.
"Our biggest problem in the classrooms in collection is when people do not read and differentiate," Stavos said.
If students throw a banana peal or apple core with either of the recycles, it has to be treated as garbage.
"It can not be mixed," Stavos said. "That's why we have the containers marked."
Faculty help with recycling as well, Stavos said. A lot of papers are generated in office areas, so printing rooms have larger containers. Faculty also have commingle containers in lunch rooms and paper and trash containers in office areas.
For the past two years, students in the dormitories would help to sort out trash in the dorm areas, Stavos said.
Andrea Lawrence, Sherburne Hall director, said that no policy exists saying that students must recycle.
"We do not force recycling," Lawrence said.
Residential halls do have recycling containers for commingle and paper.
"A lot of students do not do it (recycling) correctly," Lawrence said.
"We do try to recycle as much as possible on campus," Stavos said.
She noted recycling has progressed during the past several years.
SCSU's student handbook is encouraging students "to recycle white paper, newsprint and aluminum cans at university established recycling stations and to limit their use of products which have a toxic effect on our environment."
Stavos said classrooms in academic buildings have three containers.
"One is either black or gray which is meant for trash, one (blue) will be mentioned for paper and one will be mentioned for pop containers, glass and plastic," she said.
Stavos said students have to make sure the lids are off the recyclables and put in the garbage while the empty containers go to the recycle.
"Our biggest problem in the classrooms in collection is when people do not read and differentiate," Stavos said.
If students throw a banana peal or apple core with either of the recycles, it has to be treated as garbage.
"It can not be mixed," Stavos said. "That's why we have the containers marked."
Faculty help with recycling as well, Stavos said. A lot of papers are generated in office areas, so printing rooms have larger containers. Faculty also have commingle containers in lunch rooms and paper and trash containers in office areas.
For the past two years, students in the dormitories would help to sort out trash in the dorm areas, Stavos said.
Andrea Lawrence, Sherburne Hall director, said that no policy exists saying that students must recycle.
"We do not force recycling," Lawrence said.
Residential halls do have recycling containers for commingle and paper.
"A lot of students do not do it (recycling) correctly," Lawrence said.