On August 14th, 160+ freshmen moved into their new dorm rooms at Southwestern College. As you can imagine, that many people moving in with new TVs, microwaves, lamps, refrigerators and countless boxes of clothes and other belongings generates a lot of waste.
This year, during freshmen move-in day, the Green Team decided to collect recycling and keep large amounts of the move-in waste out of the landfill. "I really didn't know what to expect," says Jason Speegle, Director of the Green Team at Southwestern, "but I thought it would be a great opportunity to introduce our new students to the campus recycling program and get recycling off on a good foot for the new year."
When the day was over, the Green Team had collected over 364 cubic feet of recycling, mostly cardboard. This equates to nearly 1,350 pounds of cardboard that was recycled on that day!
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