Thursday, April 23, 2009
ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - recycling
Want to learn more about recycling? Stop by the commons on Friday, April 24th from 1pm-4pm to hear about ways you can make a difference. You'll find out what you can and can't recycle in Harrisonburg, learn where your recyclables go, how to get a hold of a recycling bin and much more! Let's continue to make JMU an environmentally friendly campus. It's going to be a beautiful day so please come check it out!
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I walked through the commons when they were handing out their flyers and sitting at their table about recycling. I grabbed a flyer because I honestly didn't know what was taken by recycling trucks, when the pick up days were, or how to get a bin before this semester. I wanted to go by their event because one of my other classes wanted to try and do some kind of recycling awareness project like theirs but never went through with the process. We instead took a tour of the recycling plant in Harrisonburg which in itself was really informative and beneficial. I liked the fact that they were trying to get students to recycle because I found out on my tour that the Harrisonburg residents recycle far more than the JMU student community which is really surprising because the students are supposed to be the educated generation of the future and we are not doing our part. Their project is a great start to spreading awareness through campus and hopefully other groups or classes will do the same thing because as much as people think they know about recycling, they really are too lazy to do anything about it and need that extra encouragement.
On Friday, April 24, while walking through campus preparing for finals week, I came across the group that set up the recycling advocacy project on the commons. After already receiving a flyer in class about what you can and cannot recycle and already being aware of this information (because my roommate is a recycling Nazi), I just took note of how they were presenting their information. It was very obvious what information they were sharing with an actual recycling bin in place. Overall, similar to what other students have done this semester, I think the Commons is a great place to set up an information booth because of the number of students that walk through there everyday. Overall, I think people are more aware of recycling and what they can do to help not only the James Madison University community but the Harrisonburg one as well.
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