The topic of recycling at colleges and university settings is a big, big topic.
Some of these universities can have anywhere from five thousand up to a
hundred thousand students. And one of the things I've come to learn about students
as my own son was in university and my daughter's in college, is they're always
hungry and they're always out of money. One of the things I I've said is people
set up recycling programs with multiple containers of a black, a blue or green what
have you. They're not connected, they're just loose containers. So one great piece
of advice is to have the containers connected so they don't disappear and
upset the flow of your recycling program. As I've spoken to many college recycling
coordinators over the years there's always that question how to get people
engaged? And I was tossing around the idea with some people on how can we set
up a credit system? If they do a weekly check-in to recycle they get some points
which goes back to the first topic I discussed: points equal money, money
equals a happy student. It's almost like a gamification where you can have them
do something and they're going to benefit. Which is a really a good
opportunity. The other thing that is becoming very serious these days at
schools and universities across the nation, the issue is students are texting
on the fly which means even reduced attention span, and there's been so many
issues where students walk into walls, fall down stairs because they're texting,
which really supports the the theory of if you're going to recycle keep it simple.
Two to three items so they can clearly identify because it's a fast-paced
environment. One of the other things that I've seen it witnessed and I found
extremely puzzling is the volume. And this takes place during football season
a lot in the United States. There's game day challenges.
Take a look at this, they've tailgate parties. Maybe the stadium holds 50,000 and some
of these people come two days before the game. So I said to someone, imagine you've
got 30,000 people in the parking lot, over a three day span, how many beers or
drinks will 30,000 people have in a three day span? And the numbers came back
sometimes it's in the little millions of containers. So just wrap your head around
that, if you're getting ten cents for a refund that is a significant volume that
have done correctly can actually pay for your entire recycling program while
raising awareness. I'm Bruce Buchan encouraging you to
never waste a moment even if it's at a football game where you're having a lot
of fun.
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