DSU Recycling: A Campus Initiative Toward Environmental Health

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DSU Recycling A Campus Initiative Toward
Environmental Health

• Presented by MANRRS
• (Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources,
  and Related Sciences)

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Wood What it Saws Down To

• In just one year America buries enough wood
  to construct one million homes, and enough paper
  to publish the daily newspapers in the country.
• ---Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster Saving
  the Earth

An estimate of 35 of garbage in America composes
of paper and paperboard materials.
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Presumed and Inevitable Pollution Problems

• Accumulation of refuse adulterates everything to
  the air we breath to the water that we drink.
• Negligence from one generation to the next

• Todays toss away society encourages unlimited
  dumping.
• Lack of consumer responsibility and ownership for
  inevitable predicament.

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Waste Management

• Over 80 of the waste that the country produces
  is crammed into landfills.
• International underway of voluntary and
  involuntary environmental protection
• Limited Sites of Waste Disposal
• Reduction of excess packaging

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Student Feedback

• Question YES NO_____________
• 1. Did you know that environmental contamination
  through waste disposal is targeted to African
  American communities?
• 21 79
• 2. Do you think that recycling is an effective
  strategy
• to resource conservation and waste
  reduction?
• 89 11
• 3. Would you be interested in assisting your
  MANRRS chapter with a campus wide recycling
  effort?
• 75 25

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Conservation- The Consumers Environmental
Obligation

• Waste reduction from the source to the consumed
  materials that can be reused.
• Recovery of raw materials to return to the
  industrial cycle of production.
• Natural Resources, unlike the products that we
  buy, cannot be restocked.

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The Game Plan

• Initially recycling stations will be
  set up in high traffic areas, and eventually
  diffusing to numerous locations on campus.

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Campus Recycling and Consumer Conservation
DSU Recycling
Resources Conservation
Waste Management Development