Recycle trash

The university is doing its part when it comes to the environment.

Now students need to do their part.

Recycle.

During the month of October, 18 recycling bins for paper products were added on the first floors of Anspach, Pearce and Grawn halls to encourage recycling. That’s now a total number of 44 paper recycling points on campus.

However, those bins aren’t any good if they aren’t utilized.

Copies of Central Michigan Life are spread all over floors of academic halls at days’ end. We appreciate your interest in the paper, but please dispose of the copies properly when you are finished.

Students, as well as faculty and staff, need to use the bins. With all the paper that is used on this campus, whether its those rough copies of that 20-page English report or the syllabus for class that never gets read, just imagine how much of it goes to waste.

Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Facilities Management, said the recycling bins were installed in hopes that students wouldn’t just leave their newspapers on the floor.

Although newspapers shouldn’t be left on the floor of classrooms, because personal responsibility encourages picking up after oneself, they shouldn’t be thrown in the trash either. So what better place to put the newspaper than in the recycling bin?

But the university offers more than just recycling paper materials. There’s plastics and aluminum, too.

The university added 45 bottle and can recycling points this summer and during September. Central Michigan University now has a total of 54 bottle drop-off points on campus.

So after drinking your soda before class choose to put that empty container in the recycle bin, rather than the trash can. Because although the trash can probably is only 5 feet from your desk, the recycle bin is a short stroll down the hall. Not much more effort is required to do a simple task that will help the environment in the end.

The citizens of Mount Pleasant and the services throughout the city also should take note that CMU offers recycling.

Although students can recycle at school, the majority of their trash is produced at home.

Hint, hint – apartment complexes.

The majority of the apartments do not offer recycling options, leaving students no choice but to throw their trash in Dumpsters. It’s an idea that might be something to look into.

Until then take advantage of the recycling options.

It’s not a hard decision, nor a hard task.

After reading a copy of this newspaper and future copies, put it in one of the recycling bins on campus.

Don’t throw it in the trash can.