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A spate of workplace injuries, along with too much landfill, prompted Berkeley staff and students to go back to the drawing board. Their unique trash and recycling receptacles are now making their debut on campus, along with a one-of-a-kind electric trash-collection vehicle.
Tag: Campus Recycling and Refuse Services
A worldwide first: Berkeley steps up to the plastic-waste challenge
June 7, 2012:
Stepping up to the global challenge of trying to keep plastic out of the environment, UC Berkeley is the first university campus in the world to embrace the Plastic Disclosure Project. From disposable lab ware to chicken-nugget bags to Styrofoam packing, plastic makes up a big part of the campus’s waste stream, and this effort aims to help solve the problem.
Trash costs, sustainability pays, says campus recycling ‘King’
February 27, 2012:
The manager of Campus Recycling and Refuse Services, Lin King, is working with campus groups, including Cal Athletics, to meet aggressive UC waste-diversion goals. To reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, he says, is not only the best thing for planet Earth, but good for the bottom line as well.
