Recycling Club

Welcome to the official webpage of the Health Sciences Center Recycling group! This group is dedicated to the recycling needs of the HSC, and involves two primary programs: the recycling pickup program and HSC recycling bin management.

HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER RECYCLING PICKUP PROGRAM

Volunteers will be collecting recyclable trash at school for community service hours. It's simple to participate:

1. Bin Management

Volunteers transport recyclables from the three HSC recycling Bin sets: 1 st Floor Atrium, Small Cafeteria (HSC-North), and Large Cafeteria (HSC-South), to a local recycling center. This serves as an effective yet passive way for everyone around the HSC to get involved with recycling with hopes that these efforts transcend to their households and communities.

2. Recycling Drop-Off

Students collect aluminum and steel cans, plastic bottles (and any other type-1 or type-2 plastics), newspapers, printer paper, magazines, cardboard, and glass bottles (any color). These are then dropped off at a local recycling center by the student. Material can be collected personally, or even from friends, family, and neighbors, in an effort to promote recycling throughout the community.

DESCRIPTION OF GOALS, PURPOSE, ACTIVITIES:
Utilizing volunteer service and resources from the HSC Recycling Club, a number of projects benefiting our environment have been undertaken and future programs are made a possibility.

-Offer 0.25 service hours for each kitchen-sized bag of recyclables each student takes to a local recycling center as part of the recycling drop-off program (see above).

-Offer hour-for-hour service for those helping in the HSC bin management project (see above).

-Undertake these projects in an environmentally sound manner, using mainly electronic communication and classroom announcements to inform students of these opportunities as opposed to wasteful fliers.

-Place small boxes at each recycling bin to collect pop can tabs for Ronald McDonald House. These can be emptied as needed by volunteers collecting other recycled material.

Officers 2008-2009:

President: Chauncey Spears cspears@mix.wvu.edu

Vice President: Kelsey Williams kwilli38@mix.wvu.edu

Faculty Advisor: Karen Woodfork, PhD