Go Green! Volunteers Needed

The following notice is from the Go Green! Committee:

Palo Alto College is ready to launch a single-stream (paper, plastic, metal, and glass) recycling program on campus. We need your involvement to ensure its success!

Volunteers will help:

--determine the number of recycling bins needed for each building (offices, classrooms, and public spaces) and the grounds.

--monitor the recycling bins and trash cans to make sure items are in their proper place.
keep co-workers and students up to date with the latest recycling program information.

For your effort, you will receive a beautiful VIVA VERDE t-shirt to wear with pride. If you are interested in being a part of this important endeavor, please email drichter@mail.accd.edu! Here are a few recycling facts from http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-benefits.html
that you might find interesting:

Recycling and composting diverted nearly 70 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000, up from 34 million tons in 1990-doubling in just 10 years.

Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees.

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.

The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours.

Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic beverage bottles every hour.

Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

It is important to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. Recycling helps us do that by saving energy.
Every bit of recycling makes a difference. For example, one year of recycling on just one college campus, Stanford University, saved the equivalent of 33,913 trees and the need for 636 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone.

Sincerely,

Denise Barkis Richter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Commmunications Department
Chair, Go Green! İViva Verde! Committee
Palo Alto College
1400 W. Villaret
San Antonio, Texas 78224
210.486.3237 (new number)