The E-$tock Club has partnered with Go-Green Club to start the Beckman Recycling Program! Today was our first collection of cans and bottles from ten recycling bins scattered throughout campus. The result:
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One big trash bag filled! That is not a bad haul for five days and ten bins (three pictured above).
The recycling program has many useful purposes on campus;
First of all, we are helping to clean up campus by providing an outlet for people to "go green" and recycle.
Second, the funds that recycling will give us will be used to fund more loans on Kiva and other future projects.
Finally, this is a great segue into commodities! A commodity is, at its simplest form, a good that meets a want or a need in society. Plastic and aluminum are two commodities, and at the recycling center the base buyback price is currently at $1.07 for PET 1 ("water bottle") plastic and $1.59 for aluminum cans in California.
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