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Campus Review
January 23, 2012
remarketing. (A lot easier than putting
cans in one container, bottles in another,
paper in a third, plastic in a fourth, etc.,
etc., etc.) The simplicity of having a sin-
gle individual container for recyclables
and the program’s ability to accommodate
a wider range of materials has significant-
ly increased the recycling volume – thus
clearly leading directly to the 18.7 tons --
while also helping to reduce the overall
waste collection costs across the campus.
Participants are responsible for taking
their non-recyclable waste to a designated
central location for their work area.
“This is, quite simply, a program with
many positives; it saves money, it has a
positive impact on the environment -- 318
trees can’t be wrong -- and you can feel
good that you’re doing something good,
for both Clayton State and the community
at large,” says Assistant Vice President of
Auxiliary & Administrative Services
Carolina Amero. “Plus, if you’re part of the
single stream recycling effort, you can get
one of those neat little green bags, which
can be used for anything from bringing
your lunch to campus, to collecting trash
that doesn’t go into the recycling bin.”
Acceptable recyclable items are: plastic
containers (grades 1-7); paperboard; alu-
minum and steel cans; spiral notebooks;
all colors of glass; flattened cardboard;
mixed office paper; newspapers, maga-
zines, and even phone books.
“It is amazing at the small amount of actu-
al trash/garbage we actually have left
once we remove the recyclable items,”
says Priscilla Foster in the Office of
Financial Aid. “Single stream recycling is
easy and I am proud to be a part of the
process. It is a good example of when a
little effort can make a big impact.”
“Single Stream recycling is great!” adds
Clayton State Alumni Association
President Benjamin Hopkins, operations
coordinator for the Student Activities
Center. “When we first instituted the
process in the SAC we anticipated some
problems, only to find that it is so easy.
With few exceptions, it has been one of
the easiest transitions we’ve made.”
“Recycling is a good thing to do for our
environment,” says Assistant Vice
President of Facilities Management Harun
Biswas. “This is one of the green initia-
tives that Clayton State has implemented
to help the environment. We cannot
ignore recycling anymore. It helps con-
serve energy, eliminate the need for
waste/land fill space, saves environmental
conditions, reduces pollution, saves natu-
ral resources, benefits the University eco-
nomically and much more.”
The multipurpose and administrative
buildings at Clayton State -- East have
also recently implemented the single
stream recycling program. The plan is to
gradually expand the program throughout
2012 to all buildings campus-wide, so
everyone can feel good.
Part Four of a Five-Part Series
What Can Faculty Do to Help the Cost of Textbooks?
Part of the University Bookstore Advisory
Council’s communication plan for the
2011/12 academic year is to increase
awareness about what’s causing increases
in textbook prices, and what The Loch
Shop is doing to help control these costs.
It's also about collaborative efforts, and
working together with students and facul-
ty. And, it's about a lot of things neither
The Loch Shop nor Auxiliary Services has
any control over… notably, publishers'
practices in the textbook market.
The Advisory Council includes faculty,
staff, and students, and is chaired by Dr.
Randall Gooden. The current communica-
tions campaign is about doing as much as
possible with matters the Loch Shop can
control. In that regard, the Advisory
Council has created a booklet with an
overview of this information and the new text-
book ordering process which helps the faculty
make better textbook ordering decisions (the
booklet is available at The Loch Shop).
As part of the Council’s communications
plan, Campus Review is featuring a five-
part series of articles on "The Facts About
Textbook Pricing." In this installment, we
look at what faculty can do to help.
Meet textbook requisition due dates; this
helps to get books here in time for classes,
to keep costs down for students by allow-
ing more used books to be ordered, allow-
ing students to take advantage of book
buy back, and reducing overall shipping
costs; plus it helps our institution to be in
compliance with the federal HEOA
(Higher Education Opportunity Act) law.
Re-use current textbook editions (when
the quality of the course content is not
sacrificed). The Loch Shop can then buy
back and resell the used book.
Include only essential items in textbook
bundles. Bundles cannot be sold back to
The Loch Shop, so consider ordering the
book separately so it can be bought used
and sold back.
Direct students to The Loch Shop and
educate them on the benefits of spending
their money on their campus, the main
benefit being that all proceeds are directly
reinvested back into the University.
Eighteen Tons, cont’d. from p. 1