So, I happen to attend college @ the Univ. of Neb. I am not a native of this strange midwestern place, but I attend school here. Through some particular affiliations I have at the school I work on the trash cleanup after football games.
About four weeks ago after being involved with a clean-up where I and other workers tackled approx. 40 tons of trash left on the ground and bleachers, I came home and was absolutely disgusted that none of that trash was being recycled. I told my wife and she was equally disgusted. She tried calling the person in charge of recycling for the campus, and got nowhere fast.
BRIGHT IDEA!!
Get the media involved!
So, I went and talked with the campus newspaper. I know campus newspaper what good will that do. Surprisingly campus newspapers get a pretty wide audience. I would say 75% of the 25,000+ students read it and a great many of the professors.
Well, it worked. They put it on the front page.
Most trash at Memorial Stadium not recycled
Now my commentary which you can also see apended to the end of the online article as a comment.
Despite officials statements there are not enough trash cans just do the simple math. 85000 fans 200 trashcans, duh.
I do not believe that even .001% of the cardboard or anything else is recycled, I have been a part of it.
How can you claim the problem is separation of recyclables without putting out one recycling container.
If the total trash is 40 tons then the amount of plastic bottles is more like 15-20 tons not 6-8,000 pounds. Thats a lot of recyclable bottles!
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