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Show Te mindboggling environmental statistics i sj m WHITE u;i PAFhK ft j W Every year enough aluminum is discarded to rebudd the U S. Air eshmated 500 years to decompose in a landfill. A cotton diaper (after mul- Fleet every three months, and enough steel is discarded to recon- tiple uses) decomposes in six months. struct Manhattan. In 1987, Americans generated almost enough trash to fill a 24-lahighway one-fo- ot deep from Boston to Los Angeles. Fifty acres of rainforests are destroyed each minute. Per year, that is an area equal in size to the state of Pennsylvania. A disposable diaper takes an Upto 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed each year by plastic trash such as fishing gear, k yokes, sandwich bags and the US would fill enough garbage trucks to reach half-wa- y to the moon. Recycling a glass jar saves enough energy to light a 100-wa- tt light bulb for 4 hours. stack of Recycling a ot newspapers Saves a pine tree. Cost, per day, of research and development of energy conservation and renewable energy sources m the U.S.: $840,000. Cost, per day, of the Gulf War: $1 billion. Styrofoam cups. Every year, American s throw away enough wood and paper to heat 5 million homes for 200 years. The waste generated each year in I i i Students Are Green Consumers I i I S D Agree Strongly Agree Somewhat Neither Agree nor Disagree Disag ree Somewhat . is i with ret rch lsis the bins being placed in program works on a voluntary The staff and faculty involved w small bins in each of their of-raslo separate the recyclable item tsthe small bins get full, the staff 1,Jlty member dumps them in ' ter bins located in each buildinj Each Friday a group of disable Jl f tents fmm the Washington Coun wttion Program empty the bins fi building into even larger bin rated ildmg, behind the maintenanc for pick up by Recyc 'hrgaret Blake is the job coach transition f students. According ae they have been recycling for wd ahalf around the communit la Crawford, director for tl program, works at Dix I ordinates the transition student H, through the college. Crawfot , 6 l0that the recycling is the sti and they 3- get paid for i y are college age, so this is mtion t x . . r 1 i (0) Disagree Strongly Source Pionef in Pen. 989 Ncrhonal Federation survey of 500 undergraduates Wildlife underway buildingr Hie r: r , "I'm willing to pay more for products and packaging that are safe for the environment." X 4 5 good place for them to be," said Crawford. Items that are being recycled on campus are white paper, colored paper, newspaper, magazines, cardboard and aluminum cans. 4v n w Volunteer building coordinators carry out the distribution of the small bins and oversee the recycling efforts in their building. According to Tim Eicher, coordinator for the Home Economics Building, "we realize that there is atremendous amount ofwaste. Action needs to be taken and everyone is glad to do it." A study done earlier this year by Alder showed that recyclable paper products makeup over 70 percent of the waste contained in dumpsters on campus. With recycling in effect, the cost to remove the waste will be cut considerably. "Its worked out nice because people are starting to take responsibility to recycle." ; t m T Tr 'V r if 2, . vm - - r V- v i 1 |