Find a Bin, Recycle Now
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 14, 2013) — Perhaps you are a “recycle only when it’s convenient” kind of guy. Or maybe you are “willing to take a few steps out of your way” to find a recycle bin. Or maybe you are a “trash-bin diver looking for anything recyclable in your neighbor’s garbage.”
Regardless of the energy you expend during a normal day to recycle your trash, it’s time to sit up and take notice. This isn’t your mother’s quirky cause-of-the-day. Recycling is no longer an option; it’s become critical.
Recycling even has its own special day. Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day. Visit the national website at http://americarecyclesday.org/ for ideas, activities and event planning.
The University of Kentucky is a full participant in several recycling efforts.
UK’s new recycling coordinator Mari Long came to campus with an agenda this past summer — to make it as easy as humanly possible to increase the amount of material UK recycles. She spearheaded the university’s current transition to the large, blue “single stream recycling” bins popping up all over campus. While the process has its detractors, Long hopes to expand the 25 tons of paper the university recycles every week to include plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard. A new pilot project at UK HealthCare Good Samaritan Hospital will add blue wrap, the sterile wrap used during surgeries, to the recycling bin.
Visit WUKY's "UK Perspectives" site http://wuky.org/post/uk-launches-new-all-one-recycling-program for more information.