Photo: Judi Dunn, right, WSU’s recycling/sustainablity coordinator, worked with Aaron Mulim, left, and Matt Stampalia, resident advisers at Waller residence hall, to organize a dumpster dive for sustainability in September. (Photo by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services) Reusing, recycling and composting aren’t just environmentally sensitive things to do, they make sense financially as well. During […]
Hundreds of pairs of old athletic shoes, donated to the ongoing WSU Tri-Cities “Reuse-A-Shoe” recycling program, will be on display April 25 on the north Richland campus.The display is being set up as part of a ceremony announcing both the winning school in the 2006 shoe donation competition and the establishment of the Lelon Mclouth […]
With weather warming and the school year coming to a close, many departments are planning end-of-the-year barbecues, meetings and events. University Recycling hopes event planners include environmental sustainability in their party plans.The WSU Sustainability Initiative Executive Policy 24, which passed in November 2005, “seeks to provide an exemplary teaching, research and outreach environment that fosters […]
Employees and students prepared and then partook of a free all-campus picnic at WSU Pullman Friday, Aug. 19. In these photos taken by Shelly Hanks of WSU Photo Services, Camille Martin of the Ecology Department gets into the work of recycling preparation for the Waste Wise program. And Hsiu-Pow Hwang, general manager of Dining Services, […]
What if technology and the economy were designed to sustain rather than degrade the natural environment? Imagine a world where waste is eliminated because all waste products are recycled. Does this sound like a pipe dream? Not if you believe in the concept of sustainability, which is reshaping state institutions from WSU to Olympia. Gov. […]
Washington State University and the city of Pullman are partnering to compete against 10 cities nationwide in an effort to win $10,000 through the collection of aluminum cans for recycling. The prize is being offered through the Cans for Cash City Recycling Challenge, a national recycling program being offered by the U.S. Conference of Mayors […]
Washington State University Recycling will open the newly constructed Nike Grind playground at the WSU Children’s Center on April 22. The field-turf-material construction project was funded through a combined grant from Nike Inc. and the National Recycling Coalition. In 2002, WSU collected than 5,500 pairs of shoes to donate to Nike for its Reuse-a-Shoe Program. […]