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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
 Area recycling programs have expanded their services to include additional bins and signs.
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by LINDSAY CRAVEN
Lifestyles Reporter
The fact that recycling is good for the environment is no mystery to Appalachian State University students.
The university is so aware of this, in fact, that they recycled 431 tons of recyclable waste last fiscal year, resource conservation manager Jennifer B. Maxwell said.
Appalachian has recently revamped its recycling program.
The renovations include adding multiple recycling bins to academic buildings and administration
buildings.
The ASU Recycles program has also created new signs for the bins to make it easier for students to
identify where each recyclable needs to go.
“We have provided more [recycling] sites and options on campus, as well as working at making the
sites more centralized and available,” Maxwell said in an interview with The Appalachian last semester.
Paper items that ASU Recycles accepts include white, color and printout office paper, newspapers,
magazines, telephone books, books, corrugated cardboard, confidential paper and shredded paper.
Telephone books, books and shredded paper need to be boxed or bagged and labeled and, either
placed by an existing recycling site or can be picked up upon request.
Containers that ASU Recycles accepts include plastic bottles, aluminum
cans and steel cans. Glass of all colors can also be recycled in a
separate container next to an existing recycling site.
Plastics numbers one through seven are accepted.
If the container is a bottle, then the neck must be smaller than the base.
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