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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 10, 1991
ON THE HILL
Throwing it away
Despite efforts, recyclables end up in the trash
By Jennifer Bach
Kansan staff writer
Windblown newspapers cluttered the steps leading up to the north entrance of Wescoe Hall.
While on a break between classes, Joseph Lyons carried three large armfuls of the discarded papers to the recycling bin around the corner from the building.
"I was hoping that people would see what I was doing and start do it, too, but it didn't work," said Lyons, Ft. Scott junior.
As students stroll across campus, some toss their alu minum cans into wastebaskets and others leave their news papers on the front steps of Wescoe.
Although many people have become more concerned about recycling in recent years, some students and faculty members said people might not be concerned enough.
Many seem not to notice the 105 yellow aluminum can recycling barrels across campus, the cardboard bins for aluminium recycling near garbage cans in Wescoe and the large blue recycling bin for newsprint between Stauffer-Flint Hall and Wescoe.
Sue Ask, assistant to the University environmental ambudman, said that student interest in recycling had increased on campus in the past few years, but that students only fully participated when it was convenient for them.
"There's always more that can be done," she said. "We don't have 100 percent participation on campus. It's not as comprehensive as we'd like to see it."
Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping for facility operations, said students were more concerned about recycling than they had been in the past but that their concern was sporadic.
Last year, 15 to 18 students were involved in a student recycling task force on campus, but this year only five students are involved, Endacott said.
"I have seen students throw an aluminum can in a regular trash can when the proper recycling barrel is right next to it," he said.
"We need to continue emphasizing awareness," he said.
"The students don't realize that if each person does 30 seconds worth of recycling) it could save 4 hours of another person's time."
Endacott said a lack of funds for the campus recycling effort prevented the program from being more successful.
He said that the housekeeping department, which collected about 3,800 aluminium cans every other day from August 1990 to August 1991, hoped to increase the number of recyclables it picked up.
Endacott said he wanted to place about 300 more cardboard recycling boxes around campus, but the housekeeping department did not have the money for the project.
He said the program needed to earn a profit if it wanted to increase its recycling capabilities.
"It is a matter of economics, and we are beginning to be stretched," he said. "It costs $2,700 in labor to collect about $2,700 worth of recycables. Last year we only earned a net profit of $3.47 for the whole year to put back into the program. We need front-end money."
Endacott said that during Recycling Awareness Week in November, the housekeeping program might have an "adopt-a-box" effort in front of Wesco to raise money.
Students would be able to purchase recycling boxes for $4 and have their names written on them. The boxes would be placed by the doors of campus buildings.
Endacott said he hoped personalizing the recycling concept would encourage students to become more involved.
Alan Lowden, student-body vice president, said that Associated Students of Kansas was looking into a comprehensive recycling effort, but that until funds were available, there not much could be accomplished.
Eileen O'Meara, Glencoe, Ill., senior, said that she and her roommates recycled but that some students ignored many of the recycling signs.
"I've seen a lot of recycling on," she said. "I think it's great they have all these bins around, but I think it should be enforced. I think some people don't do it because of inconvenience.
However, she said she thought there had been a tremendous improvement in environmental awareness during the past three years.
"It's disgusting with all these papers here on Wescoe. This just looks like nobody cares."
Lyons said many students might not be too concerned about recycling because they had more important things on their minds and they might not think that recycling directly affected them.
"I'll do what I can," I yons said. "Maybe if there was a rule that someone would get a ticket every time they put something that was recyclable into a trash can they would get a ticket, the effort would work better."
Lyons said he thought that more students might throw their newspapers into the bins and barrels if the holders were more visible.
"Everyone is too concerned about what other people will think if they carry these things to the right place," he said.
"Who cares what everyone else thinks? Just pick it up."
Wendi Groves/KANSAN
A trash dumpster at 13th and Kentucky streets is full of trash, including recyclable aluminum cans. People on campus are concerned that a lack of funds and public awareness is hampering efforts toward recycling at KU.
Helping in recycling efforts, Lance Ford, Shawne junior (left), smashes some aluminum cans. Ford and his roommates save the cans and trade them in for cash, which they use to buy beer.
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