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Western Carolinian Volume 73 Number 01

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  • . Page 5 cont. from pg. 4 I first visited the site where the recyclables are rounded up and eventu- ally taken awaybetter known as the print shop. Upon arrival, I found nu- merous bails of compressed cardboard and paper behind the print shop waiting to be picked up. I found it interesting to note that Western was making more of a concerted effort to recycle materials that only take a few years at most to de- compose, while the glasses and alumi- nums that often take hundreds of years to break down were being overlooked. The receptacle that was holding the glass, plastic, and aluminum items was only about 15x7. When I did speak with Mr. Woodard from GDS over the phone about our rate of pick-up, he told me the receptacle filled up once every few months or so. I found it baffling to find that over the course of a few months, WCU was not filling a receptacle only a little smaller than my dorm room. Of the over 8,000 students and the number of aluminum, glass, and plastic prod- ucts that are used, hardly a fraction of it is even reaching the on-campus col- lection receptacle! To exemplify just how uninvolved students are with re- cycling, Mr. Turk, who has been with WCUs waste management department for 18 years, estimates that 75-80% of the items recycled come from faculty! This is a large failure on the uni- versitys part. The student body is fail- ing the community, the environment, and WCUs stated mission. This ordeal is partly the students and partly the uni- versitys fault. While I could sit here all day making accusations and pointing fingers, the fact remains that 97% of the sixty students surveyed agree that universities such as Western should set the example for communities in the area of environmental awareness and conservation, as one student said. Of the sixty students randomly surveyed, 90% of the students believe that West- erns current recycling program is inad- equate and ineffective. When I last spoke with Roger Turk he told me that state mandate re- quires us to have a recycling program. It seems as if thats all that Westerns current recycling program has going for it; far from efficient, it simply fills the requirement of fulfilling state law, and nothing more. A recycling pro- gram should be more than just placing a few bins around campus and shrug- ging your shoulders saying I told you so when little student participation is found. Sadly though, it seems from what Ive gathered, this defines West- erns current program in a nutshell. An effective recycling program for a col- lege campus should be two things: in- formative and convenient. America is a culture all about convenience; with es- calators instead of stairs, online shop- ping, and numerous delivery services, recycling is at the bottom of the to do list if made inconvenient. After be- ing asked whether they recycle or not, many respondents after replying no made quick comments such as Well... I recycle at home on a regular basis. I found this interesting and began asking Why at home, but not on campus? They all responded with something about convenience. I then dropped them the question If recycling was made more accessible and convenient would you recycle more frequently? Eighty-seven percent agreed that they would. Realistically, the overly incon- venient and ineffective problem with recycling at WCU is that the collection bins are not even in the two areas where students generate the most waste, the dorms and the dining facilities. The university could provide low-budget bins and distribute them throughout each dorm hall. If students have a col- lection bin within throwing distance on their hall, students may use it. Resi- dential Living could use incentives to win a pizza/wings party for collect- ing the largest volume of recyclables. Once a week, the RAs of the hall could simply take these bins and dump them into a larger collective dorm receptacle alongside the existing dorm dumpster. These dorm-specific receptacles would be emptied into the larger bin located by the print shop weekly or bi-weekly. At the very least, students, should. pres Aramark (Westerns food: service pro- vider) to include collection bins along- side trash cans in their facilities. It appears that Mr. Woodard from GDS, and Chad and Grover at our community CMD have one thing in common; they both claim they could handle Westerns increased volume of recyclables if Western was to expand its program. The question isis Western ever going to expand the program and increase funding for it? Tuition prices are going up, and Western is growing rapidly. So why then shouldnt the al- ready deficient recycling program be expanded to accommodate? Western Carolinian Crece ae Bes Febuary 21, 2007 orrections: In last issue, the editorial that Peralta had written stated that student media was dying out. Correction to that article is print media was dying and not the student media program at WCU. The program is growing and well. In last issue, the travel program written by Ellison had a travel photo. The photo credit stated that it was | taken in Germany when it was taken in Scotland. STAR NAILS Professional Nail Care Service (828) 631-1515 Acrylic - UV Gel - Solar Pedicure & Manicure - Air Brush - Nail Design
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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