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three-day festival to encourage peo
ple to return the plates, including
making announcements on stage
and posting signs on the vendor
booths.
He said he assumes that the plates
were either stolen outright or people
‘The fact that 20 percent
(of the plates) were stolen
seems like such a waste
of money.”
Mary Elizabeth Madden
ASUO student senator
walked off to eat at other locations.
“We barely found any that were
sitting around. We were on it as
good as we could,” he said. “It was
our first time, and I feel we did
good for the pilot project.”
While members of ASUO are
angered at the loss, they are most
ly concerned with the fact that
Campus Recycling did not insti
tute a deposit system as they said
it would.
Student Senator Mary Elizabeth
Madden and recently departed
ASUO Vice President Joy Nair were
especially concerned because they
remember Campus Recycling pro
posing a deposit system when the
group asked for the money.
“I think that when the Senate ap
proved the money there was the
concept of a deposit, and I guess
that didn’t happen,” Nair said.
“That’s too bad.”
Madden suggested that in the
future people be given the option
of using the plates in the hopes
that a higher percentage of the
plates will be returned.
“The fact that 20 percent were
stolen seems like such a waste of
money,” Madden said.
The intricacy of a deposit system
prevented Campus Recycling from
using it this year, Borgida said. He
said that there would need to be a
central location to get plates be
cause it would be too complicated
for vendors to handle the money.
He also said there will always be
problems recovering plates at a free
open-air festival.
“I don’t think you could ever go
to deposit here,” he said.
Before the event, Borgida didn’t
think the organization would
have any problem with people
stealing the plates. He estimated
that the loss of the plates would
be at most 300.
Borgida is already planning to
use plates at next year’s events, and
he said that they still have enough
plates to use them again. However,
they will need more help from the
food vendors, which would in
clude not only telling customers to
return the plates, but giving mone
tary contributions.
“The food vendors definitely
saved a considerable amount on
buying paper plates,” Borgida said.
“It would be good if they could
pass the savings on to us.”
Borgida also suggested the idea
of printing the recycling logo and a
message on the plates.
Campus Recycling distributed
surveys about the festival’s recycling
program and received 300 respons
es. Overall, Borgida found that many
people at the festival supported and
were excited about the program.
“It worked,” he said. “And we
proved it worked.”
E-mail reporter AlixKerl
at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com.
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