Greenville

Going Green is something that is obviously spreading on college campuses today. If I look back to when I started college, I never heard or saw anything that resembled the programs and inovations that are being created today. With that being said, people and more specifically students are doing there part in increasing the effort to "Go Green." As I have seen on our campus, we are doing what I think is a large part in the effort of going green. An example of this would be the bags that were being handed out all over campus about a month ago. I was riding around in the Outreach golf cart running errand when I was bombarded with people giving out these Quizno coupons as well as a canvas feeling bag that is obviously recycleable. This bag was for nothing more than a few small items but made alot of sense to me as we are using so much unnecessary material little things.

So this would be the first step to going green. In the yerby center, there are two rooms with trash cans used for nothing else but plastic bottles. Others are used for nothing but cans. This is a major inovation that has proven to work for a number of years. I find myself throwing a coke can away in a normal trash can while looking over to the one used for cans only. I immediately make the conscious effort of throwing that can away in the proper area. The same goes for newspapers. There is an area where you can throw you newspapers away. Recycling goes far beyond paper, newspapers or plastic bottles at a college campus. there are actually many items that can be recycled on a college campus. this is especially true for technological products, such as computers, computer disks and printer cartridges. Light bulbs and batteries are just two of many items which need to be changed fairly frequently that can also be recycled on a college campus. Anything that can be recycled on a college campus should be recycled. this is one of the easiest and most important things that can be done on a college campus to go green. janitors should be given reminders about recycling and recycling bins should be placed in convenient locations all over campus.

Aside from the many offices on campus, the going green effort can be taken to the dining halls of college campuses. From what I have seen, one of the easiest ways of of this matter is for dining services to purchase their produce from local farmer's markets and to be organic. Obviously recycling cups, utensils, and plates would be an easy adjustment. Coffee is probably the most popular drink without alchohol and is served should be served in compostable products. Lastly, the detergents that are used to clean all of these items can be purchased in an environmentally friendly way.

Some obvious disadvantages of this would be that there are so many students living in a small area that it is hard to control their recycling habits. College campus are usually in cities where these students are forced to be crammed. Now probably not all students do this, I am going to assume that most students deal with a ton of gargage and are not able to do their part in a conservative recycling campaingne.

More invations are the public transits driving across campuses. This in my opinion is especially effective which keeps students from actually taking their cars to campuses. I believe that this is a great way to becoming more eco friendly and should be free to users. With that said, I have been seeing more and more bicycle riders on campus.
These are the main invovations in todays world.