OPINION: Never Waste a Good Crisis
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Student volunteers sorted through one day's worth of trash from Lora Robins Court as part of a waste audit held in the University of Richmond Forum on March 22. The waste audit was a part of RecycleMania, a campus-wide effort to help raise awareness about sustainability. According to Megan Zanella-Litke, University of Richmond sustainability coordinator, 20 percent of the sorted trash could have been recycled.
Recycled poultry feathers contained within a floating structural barrier traveled down the James River as part of Richmond senior Sadie Runge's studio art thesis this winter.
This weekend I was caught doing something I never do: cleaning. I straightened up my room, Swiffered the floor and even reluctantly cleaned out the refrigerator.
For first-year and transfer students, Sept. 10 marked the first run-in with Trayless Fridays at the Heilman Dining Center.
Ed Jones, a recycling associate at the University of Richmond, works on a daily timetable to finish his work, making sure contents of all recycling stations on campus have been collected. He drives a white Ford truck that connects to a black metal-grated trailer with wheels that screech slightly with every brake. Jones honks at every familiar passerby with two honks of the horn and a wave.
All students need to do now to aid campus sustainability initiatives is save their food waste.
I was just thinking about how I hate trashcans.