Campus Seeing Recycling Boom
Campus Seeing Recycling Boom
Workers pulling up to campus recycling containers on their weekly rounds have lately been greeted with an unusual sight: Full bins. Packed bins. Bins that are stuffed to the bursting point.
Recycling has been on the upswing for the past two years, but the campus has experienced a surge in the practice since students arrived with the start of this year's academic term, according to Recycling Coordinator Dave Wade. Recycling workers are having to give housing areas more bins and haul more material than before to the City of Santa Cruz recycling center, which handles most of the campus's recycling, said Wade.
The numbers for 2007 aren't available yet, but Wade and his staff at the UCSC Recycling Program estimate the university's total recycling could jump from 1,277 tons in 2006 to 1,500 tons this year--an increase of nearly 18 percent.
"We just know that at every stop we go to pick up recycling, there's more material," said Wade.
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