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6 NEWS
the Rice Thresher
Friday, March 11,2011
Recycling made easy
Rice switches over to single-stream recycling
by Brooke Bullock
Thresher Editorial Staff
With the opening of Waste Man-
agement's Municipal Recycling
Facility, Rice's recycling system
switched to single-stream recycling
on Monday.
Students will be able to place all
recyclable materials into a single
bin in their room or at designated
recycling loca-
tions around f(
campus rather
than sorting re-
cyclables into
different bins
themselves.
Manager of
Communica-
tions for Facili-
ties Engineering
and Planning
Susann Glenn
said that Rice
had been want-
ing to switch to
single-stream
recycling for a
long time. With
the opening of the Waste Manage-
ment facility, many people in the
city of Houston and Rice are now
able to use single-stream recycling.
"It's been a dream for a really
long time," Student Association
Environmental Committee Co-
Chair Kristina Butler said. "We're
really excited about it."
Director of Sustainability Rich-
ard Johnson said that switching
to single-stream recycling will be
easier on students and staff.
I think it's going to
have a huge impact.
A lot of people don't
recycle because of
indifference or in-
convenience, so this
will help.
Kristina Butler
Will Rice 'n
"Since it's so convenient, [sin-
gle-stream recycling] is greener
because you get a larger volume of
recyclables," Johnson said.
Johnson said that the new sys-
tem means that students and staff
can recycle more types of plastics
and materials — like juice boxes,
such as the Juicy Juice type, but not
pouches, like CapriSun. Students
can recycle plastics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and 7, although
plastic bags and
Styrofoam can-
not be recycled.
To identify what
type of plastic a
container is, the
plastic number -
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 7 -
can be found on
the container,
usually on the
bottom, in the
triangle of ar-
rows symbol for
recycling.
"I think it's
going to have a
huge impact,"
Butler, a Will Rice College senior,
said. "A lot of people don't recycle
because of indifference or inconve-
nience, so this will help."
The new system comes at an op-
portune time to try and raise the
amount of recycling at Rice because
Rice is competing in Recyclemania,
an eight-week long, intercollegiate
recycling competition, Johnson
said. He said that because of the
competition, FE&P and Housing
and Dining are already keeping an
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.. with single stream recycling all recyclable materials can be collected
Single Stream Recycling all in one bin, making it easier for everyone to save the planet.
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eye on week-to-week data about
how much Rice recycles.
Since the announcement of the
single-stream recycling system over
spring break to custodial staff, there
has already been an increase in re-
cycling on campus through the data
collected for Recyclemania. Johnson
said he hopes to see recycling con-
tinue to increase with students back
on campus after the break.
Furthermore, single-stream re-
cycling should be easier for cus-
todial staff to work with, Johnson
said. Custodial staff no longer has
to worry if a bag of recyclables is
contaminated by having plastic
and aluminum or paper mixed be-
cause of the single-stream recycling
system. Even a little bit of trash
shouldn't keep custodial staff from
recycling a bag of recyclables be-
cause Waste Management can han-
dle it, Johnson said.
"I think it's really logical be-
cause a lot of people can make
mistakes, and then people have to
look through to make sure nothing
is mixed," Wiess College freshman
Triana Touchstone said.
Johnson said that the plant
Waste Management has opened is
able to sort the recyclables by me-
chanical, chemical or digital means
O TUITION
FROM PAGE 1
"Rice has been named a best value
university for all seven years that the
Princeton Review has done this rating
because of our high quality education,
lower tuition and generous financial
aid policies," Leebron said. "We have
maintained our commitment to both
generous financial aid and a lower
tuition price even in the midst of the
present economic environment and
our endowment losses."
However, Leebron said that the
university does not speculate on fu-
ture tuition rates.
Hanszen College freshman Edward
Tian said it would be great for tuition
to stay low, but Rice can only be so
generous, and considering the quality
of education and other opportunities
provided here, the rise in tuition was
not really unexpected.
"Unlike Rice, the world isn't the
happiest place, and it isn't free of wor-
ries or problems," Tian said. "I'm sure
as it passes through on a conveyor
belt, eliminating the need for peo-
ple to do it before collection.
Johnson also said they hope to
take students and custodial staff
out to the plant sometime in the
next year so that they can see how
they are contributing to recycling.
If students need bins — the regu
lar blue bins many students already
have — for recycling in their room
they can request one from binsre-
quest@rice.edu.
Any questions concerning recy
cling on campus can be sent to sus-
tainability@rice.edu.
there are a lot of factors we aren't think
ing about that led to this new tuition."
Tian said that he really appreciated
Rice's mentality of "education for every
one" regardless of his or her financial
situation. According to Tian, as long as
it's a need-blind system of acceptance
into the university, the tuition increase
is justified and understandable.
Martel sophomore Ben Chou said
that the tuition increase was unfortu
nate because it was unreasonable to
ask students to pay extra in the cur
rent economic climate, though he said
he was glad that the tuition of current
students would stay the same.
"I hope this is not a turn-off for pro-
spective students," Chou said. "I hope
we can maintain our best value status."
According to Chou, the Princeton
Review's best value ranking is the
second most attractive factor for those
considering Rice, with the first being
the university's quality of life rating.
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