IN TOUCH
with Recycling
Tab-collecting benefits dialysis patients
It seems recycling has become fashionable and
nowhere is it more in vogue than here on
campus. Throughout campus there are peo
ple working to make sure that everything,
including food, can tabs and Kittles, is recycled.
Perhaps the most interesting effort being
undertaken on campus is the collection of the
tabs from aluminum cans. The sign on the mam
la envelopes placed around the EMU used to say
that each pop tab paid for a certain amount of
time on a dialysis machine.
Wesley Weathers, who was responsible lor set
ting up the program at the University, said the lit
tle pull tabs are not actually used to pay for
dialysis, but tor other needs of dialysis patients
"You either go on dialysis or die. You have a
choice, a big choice," Weathers said. "But it's
expensive and there usually isn’t much money
left.”
Weathers said it takes 1,000 can tabs to make
one pound that can be taken to a recycling center
in Albany. The money (usually about 18 cents a
pound) is given to the Dialysis Center in Albany,
which is responsible tor dispersing it.
Weathers said he appreciates the help from the
University (which has provided I 10 pounds of
tabs since December) and would like to set up a
can drive sometime in the future so that the pro
gram could receive the money front those as well
as the tabs.
Other little known efforts on campus are those
of the Student Recycling Program. This program
is funded through incidental tees and the ASUO.
Recycling assistants drive around in a big
white van collecting glass, tin, plastic and paper
front University housing, including the co-ops
and the Greek houses, and other off-campus sites.
John Thomas, dorm coordinator, has been try
ing to increase recycling in University housing by
putting collection bins in individual rooms
“We have bins in roughly 10 percent of the
rooms but are looking at expanding the ser
vice, “he said. "Unfortunately, the bins are fairly
expensive."
Germaine Curry also works with Student
Recycling, hut instead of working with childish
dorm residents, she works with actual children.
Curry does presentations and art projects with
kids that attend the day care in the EMU.
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Children at th* EMU Child Car* Imam about racycling
through worm compoiting.
Throughout campus there are
[xople working to make sure
that everything, including food,
can tabs and bottles, is recycled.
She helps them with art projects that make use
of already used materials and gives small presen
tations about recycling. One o! the hazards ot
talking to the three- to five-year-olds is their
short attention span.
“I have about five minutes to talk to them
before they start to wander," Curry said. "And
while they don’t fully grasp the concepts, they
appreciate recycling and know what it is. ’
— Currie Fenelon
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