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Recycling On The Plains

Posted in AU Outreach Office, AU students, Amelia Denson, Facilities Division, Recycling, Sustainability by Amelia | Friday, November 16th, 2007 | Trackback

Auburn University is celebrating “America Recycles Day� today on the plains. The AU Recycling program is sponsoring the second annual Recycling“Landfill on the Lawn� event at Cater Lawn from 1-3 p.m. today.

This event will collect percentages of recycled trash from the university’s single-stream recycling program. This in turn, will be used for the Recyclemania Competition, which is held in the spring.

America Recycles Day is special because it is the only nationally recognized day to encourage Americans to recycle and purchase recycled products.

The single-stream recycling program started in 2005. It has saved the university more than $10,000 in disposal fees by collecting more than 500 tons of recyclables.

The AU Recycling Program was established by the Auburn University Facilities Division and Sustainability Initiative in 2005. Their mission is to encourage and expand recycling, waste diversion and reuse programs and promote efforts to decrease the amount of waste produced on campus in order to reduce the amount of waste in our local landfill.

For more information about AU Recycling Program visit www.auburn.edu/recycle or about America’s Recycles Day visit http://nrc-recycle.org/americarecycles.aspx.

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