Recycling

The Texas State Recycling Program has made a lot progress over the years and it is a huge component of what is making Texas State greener. Recycling bins of all sorts can be seen everywhere on campus from dining halls, to dorms, classrooms and even in the quad. Texas State also sponsors many recycling events, including Texas Recycles Day.
“Texas Recycles Day is a statewide campaign aimed towards education and awareness about the benefits of waste reduction and recycling,” as said by the Texas State Recycling and Waste Management website. Texas State also supports the Cardboard Collection Campaign which is an organized endeavor to collect as much cardboard as they can during the time students are moving into the dorms.
Recycling can be done in many ways on campus, the bins in the quad will recycle mainly aluminum cans and plastic bottles, classroom boxes will recycle paper. The dorms will recycle most items for the people who live in them such as cardboard, paper, aluminum cans and plastic bottles. For students, recycling on campus has become a lot easier. “It is very convenient to recycle on campus because my classes are in buildings where the recycle bins are,” said history senior Susan Wise. For the non-believers who think one person recycling can’t possibly do anything, let it be known that according to the Texas State Recycling and Waste Management website, “Every bit of recycling makes a difference. For example, one year of recycling on just one college campus, (Stanford University), saved the equivalent of 33,913 trees and the need for 636 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone.” Apparently, one person and one campus can make a difference.