Campus Corps members serving in Dillon, MT rallied their campus and nearby community on Tuesday November 15th to celebrate of America Recycles Day. The team worked to inform students about the campus' recycling options and utilized many creative methods to achieve this including visiting classes and dumpster diving the room's garbage can from which participants sorted out the recyclable waste that had been wrongfully placed in the trash. Furthermore, members stationed themselves in the highly trafficked pathways in between classes to get the word out while giving away free pins and bookmarks.
The day of events continued with the plastic and can crushing competition during which students were challenged to see who could crush the most recyclables in a set amount of time, and in doing so prepared the items to begin the recycling process. At 6pm UM-W students, faculty, staff, as well as members of the Dillon community flocked to campus to view the screening of "Bag It": a documentary on the harmful effects that plastic bags have upon the environment. Before beginning the film, the audience had the opportunity hear from a Patagonia representatives who demonstrated how their company reuses plastic bags to make material for their clothing (as was used to make the shirt Cheyanne is wearing in the photo above!!).
The success of the day long event serves as a tribute to the effectiveness of the campus's recent efforts both to become more sustainable and to raise the community's awareness of important environmental issues. Just since the beginning of this school year, the campus has seen major advances in these initiatives and such can be attributed to the group of passionate and dedicated volunteers devoted to the cause!
Campus Corps member Mandy created a dress out of 500 plastic bags - the number of bags an average person uses over the course of one year. Check it out!
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