I went for about an hour long walk around campus today checking out what kind of recycling options WMU has to offer. I would have gone to other places that are further away from campus, but I don't have a car to drive myself there and the walk would be a very long one. Here is what I found...
Welborn hall is only a few steps from campus located just down the street from Campus Point. I went there today to check out the recycling service that Western's website said was there. Unfortunately, the building was closed and I saw no signs of recycling activity anywhere. If there is a recycling service still there that anyone knows of, please post on here and say so because I may just have chose the wrong day to go and visit.
I also investigated the dorms. I lived in Henry last year and still remember the recycling bins that were there. Plastic, cardboard and paper were all accepted. At Draper/Sied hall, where I live this year, they only have a bin for cardboard and maybe plastics. In the Valley's they have bins for glass, metal, plastic, paper and cardboard, which are even used by off-campus students as well. Even though I didn't check every dorm for at least one of these bins, I would have to guess each one has them. So, students...you better use them!
Lastly, I noticed the new recycling containers placed around Western's campus. I remember the first time I saw these were just last year and have helped greatly to reduce the amount of waste on campus. I visited three today and took a quick snapshot of each one as I passed by. I'm very curious as to what the Saga stickers mean. I tried researching it and came up with about 30 different answers to what it could be, so if anyone could shed some light on the subject I would greatly appreciate it.The first picture is of the one located at the sidewalk intersection between Dalton, Knauss and the Chemistry building, the second is the one located right next to the flag poles and the last one is located next to the Gazebo at the Valley Ponds.
To wrap up this blog I would like to say that Kalamazoo and WMU have a lot of different ways to recycle. Not only do they provide us with convenient containers around campus for when we need to recycle on the go, but also give us large recycling bins to remind us that we should sort our trash before dumping it. Kalamazoo also provides several recycling centers for the thousands of people that live in the area. I hope this blog was a source of inspiration and motivation to recycle more. With that, I will conclude with this quote from Barry Commoner, an American biologist, college professor and eco-socialist who ran for President of the United States in 1980 on the Citizens Party ticket.
"Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem."-Barry Commoner
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