Monday, April 23, 2007

News Times | Students try to boost recycling at WestConn

News Times Live Students try to boost recycling at WestConn: "...In the past year, Roots & Shoots has tried to steer the university onto the path of recycling, only to find out state institutions can be as nimble as a 1955 Studebaker station wagon with a blown head gasket.

Zachary Storey, a WestConn junior who is the Roots & Shoots president, admits the work calls for some diplomacy. The group doesn't want to preach or alienate the university's leaders, its faculty or its students.

Instead, it has held events like a recycling dinner, where students learn what can be recycled. It started a petition to present to WestConn's Food Services Department, asking it to be more attentive to recycling...."