On May 23, 2007, we received our first collection boxes and began filling them with 20oz soda bottles from building J to be returned to Terracycle. The bottles will be reused as packaging for Terracycle's organic plant foods. (More info at: http://www.terracycle.net ) We've chosen to take our credit for the bottles in rain forest conservation through the Nature Conservancy. For each useable bottle we return, we help to conserve 10 square feet of rain forest.

The project has now expanded to other buildings on campus, and is being supplemented by a newly instituted campus recycling program for the bottles we can't send to Terracycle.

This page was last updated on: 29 August 2007

Total to date: 1,372 bottles

OR 13,720 square feet

Building Captains (by building letter):

A / Student Center: Leigh Ann Soublis

D / : N. Reichert and the Honors Program

G / ECET: Scott Tippens

J / Atrium: Jon Lindsay and Julie Newell

M / Textile: Russ Hunt

N / Architecture: Christopher Thornton

Is your building missing from the list? For more information or to volunteer, contact:
Julie Newell jnewell@spsu.edu

NPR Marketplace story on Terracycle, 31 July 2007: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/07/31/PM200707315.html