Column: Campus recycling program begins
Nancy Hawksley
Issue date: 2/2/10 Section: Editorial/Opinion
02/02/10 - For the fifth year, the University of Rhode Island has joined 598 other colleges and universities across the country in this year's RecycleMania competition. Participating schools report the weight of their cans and bottles, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard and general campus trash to the recyclemaniacs.org Web site every week for the duration of the ten-week competition. This year RecycleMania began on Jan.17 and will end on March 27.
URI's trash contractor is Waste Management. Trash trucks are on campus every day. URI's recycling contractor is CleanScape. The CleanScape recycling truck is on campus Mondays and Thursdays. Mega Disposal, recycling subcontractor, collects our corrugated cardboard every Thursday.
If you live in Narragansett, you can bring your recycling to campus. Please place into the appropriately labeled container. If you live in South Kingstown, the town has provided blue and green totes for your recycling.
In previous years, URI has finished respectably, but we have never won. You can do your part to help. Recycle your aluminum, plastic and glass empty beverage containers into blue bins. Recycle all your paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs into green bins. Recycle all your flattened corrugated cardboard into tan cardboard dumpsters. If you need help, please contact URI Recycling and one of our cheerful staff members will assist you.
URI Recycling is at recycle@etal.uri.edu, 401.874.2840, and www.uri.edu/recycling. You can join "URI RECYCLEMANIA 2010" on Facebook.
URI's trash contractor is Waste Management. Trash trucks are on campus every day. URI's recycling contractor is CleanScape. The CleanScape recycling truck is on campus Mondays and Thursdays. Mega Disposal, recycling subcontractor, collects our corrugated cardboard every Thursday.
If you live in Narragansett, you can bring your recycling to campus. Please place into the appropriately labeled container. If you live in South Kingstown, the town has provided blue and green totes for your recycling.
In previous years, URI has finished respectably, but we have never won. You can do your part to help. Recycle your aluminum, plastic and glass empty beverage containers into blue bins. Recycle all your paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs into green bins. Recycle all your flattened corrugated cardboard into tan cardboard dumpsters. If you need help, please contact URI Recycling and one of our cheerful staff members will assist you.
URI Recycling is at recycle@etal.uri.edu, 401.874.2840, and www.uri.edu/recycling. You can join "URI RECYCLEMANIA 2010" on Facebook.
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