How Did Bevier Win RecycleMania ‘09?
Lauren Brois April 26th, 2009
Watch this video with RA Allie and RA Katie to find out how they helped rally their hall and win the ‘09 tournament!
Archive for April, 2009
Who Recycles at NP?
Upcoming Events
Lauren Brois April 19th, 2009
SUNDAY April 19: NYPIRG’s Earth day celebration. Come and party for the planet!
MONDAY April 20: Coffee Cup Demonstration near Humanities
STARTING TUESDAY April 20: Paper Consumption Exhibit in the library
WEDNESDAY April 22: Earth Day and Sustain 09′ Conference in LC 100
SATURDAY April 25: Rock Against Racism, check out the recycling club table and win prizes
MAY: Reuse to Reduce
Green of the Week
Lauren Brois April 18th, 2009
Is an aluminum reusable water bottle better than a one time use plastic one? Find out at:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/19/opinion/20090419bottle.html
Field Trip!
Lauren Brois April 18th, 2009
Recycling Club took a trip to the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency
Here are some photos from the trip!
This large container holds separated plastics. Starting from the right side there are: aluminum cans, HDPE (milk jugs), colored plastics (like laundry detergent), then PETE plastic # 1 (water bottles). This entire container is filled about every three days.
The plastics are dumped onto this loading dock and then are lifted to the top of the garage
On the Eddie Turnbelt the recyclables are then hand sorted and throw into the appropriate bin. The most valuable item is HDPE plastic #2, like a milk jug container
The front of the photo is the plastics loading dock and behind it are all bales of cardboard and paper. The cardboard is put into a big compressing machine that can bale it up. Once baled all the recyclables are sold on the recycling market and then can be made into new things.
This picture can help you understand why it is important to take the tops off of your bottles before recycling them! Here is a pile of glass shards from broken down glass jars and stuff but look at all the tops mixed in! This mixture is separated by a laser machine at another site.
This machine grinds up glass products to texture as fine as……
Sand!
Here is Shanya in front of a huge pile of recycled glass, which is just sand
Recycling Club at the UCRRA
Trash Audit!
Lauren Brois April 16th, 2009
Today is the Trash Audit! From 11-2 Recycling CLub will be on the SUB concourse finding out how much of New Paltz’s trash is really garbage. We will be separating the trash based on what can be reused, recycled or composted.
Thanks!
Lauren Brois April 6th, 2009
I want to give Chris and TJ a big shout out for being such an important part of RecycleMania. Without their help in weighing all out recyclables we would not have been able to have the competition! Bravo to Chris and TJ!
An Awesome Opportunity with Clearwater
Lauren Brois April 5th, 2009
Would you like to come sailing on the beautiful Hudon River this spring or summer?
It’s an exciting year with the boat celebrating her 40th birthday, Pete blowing 90 candles on his cake this year and the entire valley looking back on the 400 years since Henry Hudson explored the river.
As our sailing season draws near, check your spring and summer calendars to see if you too would like to volunteer aboard the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and our sistership The Mystic Whaler. We are now accepting applications to volunteer for an exciting week on the Hudson River participating in our maritime environmental education program. Volunteers are integral to acheiving our goal of creating the environmental leaders of tomorrow, we depend on you!
Sounds pretty awesome, here is a link to a video about Clearwater http://www.clearwater.org/volvideo.html
and here is the application: http://www.clearwater.org/pdf/volapp.pdf
