I am currently a member of the Green Life Organization. My goal is to promote recycling on the USI campus. Recycling is a very good thing for the environment. We should all recycle because it makes the Earth better for not only us, but for our kids and future generations as well. There are many places on campus where you can recycle. Most of the recycling bins are right next to the dumpsters so when you do take your trash to the dumpster you can just recycle it on the way.
The reason why most people do not recycle is because they do not want to take the time out of there busy lives or non busy lives to do it. My solution for this goal is to offer variety of rewards on campus for those who do choose to recycle. Most college students would be more willing to do anything if there is some kind of reward offered for them in return. I do think that the rewards would have to change every now and then or they would get bored with it and choose not to recycle anymore.
I think people should want to recycle because there are so many good reasons to recycle out there. A couple of good reasons I think why people should recycle are because it is good for the economy, it reduces waste, it’s good for the environment, it reduces the amount of garbage that gets put into the landfill, and it saves energy. Many people do recycle, but it would be great if we could get even more people to recycle. What some people do not know is that water bottles can be recycled and be made into shirts, carpets, blankets, scarf’s, hats, mittens, and bags. I feel like if more people were aware of how many things could easily be recycled and if they knew all the facts I think they would choose to help out a lot more.
My solution for this proposal is to make fliers and brochures. I’m going to be making the fliers and brochures colorful so they catch people’s eyes right away. The fliers have the three R’s, which mean Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. It also will have the recycling symbol in the middle of the page. My brochures will have tons of facts and why people should recycle. They will also have pictures of what the recycling bins look like on campus and pictures of examples on what should go into the recycling bins on campus. The recycling bins on the USI campus will have signs on them saying aluminum, plastic, and paper.
I think this is a great start on getting our point across on recycling. If everyone could just get involved and just recycle some papers, water bottles, and cans it would be a great start into helping our campus and Evansville as a whole.
