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Pilot Project: Complete Recycling Options in Meredith’s Classrooms Waste Stream Characterization Laura Fieselman Joyner Hall has been select ed to lead a pilot project beginning January 2011 to provide complete reeycling options for Meredith’s classroom buildings. New recycling bins have been placed alongside trashcans at the stairwell and build ing exits on both the first and second floors. The waste stations provide the full range of options for dispos ing paper, aluminum, plastic and garbage. The project is designed to address the anecdotal and quan titative findings that trashcans in classrooms across campus are significantly filled with recyclables. The most recent campus waste audit (Januaiy 2010) found that almost 25 percent of campus trash should have been plaeed in the recycling stream [i.e., offiee paper, bottles, aluminum, and cardboard]. Research shows that effective trash and recycling behaviors are achieved when all available bins are placed together and every option is equally convenient (McKenzie-Mohr & Smith, 1999; Cole, 2007). During the pilot project trash cans will be removed from individual classrooms; students can find a waste station visible from the entrance to each classroom. The College currently spends $2,445 per month on aver age removing garbage from campus; recycling removal is currently funded through proceeds from the sale of the materials at no cost to the College. Plastic trashcan liners cost the Col lege $7,000 annually; if continued for one year, this pilot project would eliminate the use of at least 2250 plastic liners. The 0) pilot was initiated 0 by the campus Sustainability Committee and CM is led by Dean Gariy Walton and Facilities Services Assistant Director, Harry Cadman. other metal, 0% reusables 3% aluminum . Bottles Hl-2 5% CO .ri OJ 60 0> Pi -03 0) t1 O) a o 3 ®' ag f-o d ® q H Ph >4-4 0 w r? H 01 tH Ph ^ X 0 0 0 p. ^ p ^ K. i> gs •rH 0 ?. s 0 ^ pH 0 ^ 0 ei rH 0 0 .6 ffi el d . ^ 00 P^ > Ph ^ 0 9 >rH p 2 ci oi 0 ^ VH ^ ^ ^ ^ Ph P4 ;z; Ph 0 P 0 0 00 S 0 P id S3 S 10 Sq 1 X 0 H 60 pL| ^ 0 > 9. S rH IS ° £ 00 H 00 Sg § 1 0 S- S 2 § 0 pH 5 § 0 ^ 0 C '53 0 0 'Ci'^ r? OP 0 t X Ph 0 0 CO u, p id m cc Pd ^ Q 1 £ if 03 X 0 H 01 0 H 0 0 id. ip H E w /—\ M § .2 s cd Q W ^ 5 Q s M p 0 Pi 0 g W) 5 (d ^ 01 ^ Pi H a ^ 0 H c C4 PQ ON W ■|§ B 0 pq W 0 0 n P pq ip W o\ cardboard 3% commingled paper 7% electronics 1% graphic courtesy of Laura Fieselman Announcements fl^l^olton Review. MereditlrCollege s literary magazine, is still acceptingssubmissions! ‘Submissions can be poctiy', prose (short-stories), and experim^rtal. All genres are accepted. The deadline has been extended to Januaiy 14th. | Please email your submissions to thdbditor, Erin Huber, at hu6’ereri(®meredith.edu. There will bq a contest tor the be,st poem and the best prose piece! Want your department's event featured in The Herald? Email the details to heruld@emdil.meredith.edu
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