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What are you doing to reduce waste and/or contribute to the recycling effort.
Author Theodore Haynes will visit UCO for a public reading of his book “Growing Up Stories.”
Howell Hall’s Natural HIstory Museum is being remodeled.
After an 0-6 start, the Bronchos win three at the ACHA Showcase.
student voice since 1903.
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WANTLAND WANTS YOUR TRASH UCO is one of 41 universities with football programs participating in the EPA’s “Game Day Challenge,” a competition to promote recycling. By Ryan Costello / Senior Staff Writer There’s going to be a lot of garbage at Wantland Field come the Bronchos’ final home matchup against Texas A&MCommerce October 30. It won’t be the teams on the field, but rather the hundreds if not thousands of pounds of trash that attendees will bring in to be recycled as a part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s, “Game Day Challenge.” “The concept is this: The EPA has put out what they call their ‘Game Day Challenge’, and the object of the game is to compete with other universities who have football teams to collect the most solid waste,” said Alternative Transportation Coordinator Tim Tillman, a volunteer coordinator for the university’s part in the recycling program. “It’s on a per person basis. In sheer pounds of recyclables collected, we can’t compete with [larger universities], but
per attendee, absolutely.” The materials included in the competition are paper, beverage containers, corrugated cardboard, organic materials for compost, and mixed recyclables. Tillman first heard of the event when Bob Ault, an administrative assistant to UCO Executive Vice President Steve Kreidler, unearthed it last month. “It’s really a short-fused project. We found out about it about a week and a half ago, and the game’s on the thirtieth,” Tillman said. UCO is working alongside a handful of both university and municipal groups for the project, including the City of Edmond, the UCO Athletics Department, Students In Free Enterprise (S.I.F.E.), and the UCO Physical Plant. “Adam Rogers, with the Physical Plant and the Recycling program [at UCO], those guys are all over this thing,” Tillman said.
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UCO Alternative Transportation Coordinator Tim Tillman, a voluteer for the university’s part in the EPA’s “Game Day Challenge,” is one of several students and faculty on the recycling competition.
25,000,000,000 =1,000,000,000
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styrofoam cups, enough every year to circle the earth 436 times.
Of the 62,000,000 newspapers printed per day, 44,000,000 will be thrown away, the equivalent of 30,000,000 trees. Recycling one ton of papers redices the use of processed energy by a minimum of 64% in addition to the savings of the fuel consumed by transporting and processing the trees.
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DID YOU KNOW? The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year.
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Billion aluminum cans were thrown into landfills last year alone, with an estimated value of more than $600 dollars.
Each year Americans throw away
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THE VISTA
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA’S
WEATHER
OCT. 12, 2010
=1,000,000
50
Million Pounds
amount of rubber Americans wear off their tires every two weeks.
Between
1950 and 2000
the U.S. population nearly doubled. However, in that same period, public demand for water more than tripled. Americans now use an average of 100 gallons of water each day — enough to fill 1,600 drinking glasses.
Recycling aluminum cans consumes:
96% 95% 97%
less energy than producing one from ore less air pollution than producing one from ore less water pollution than producing one from ore
Curbside pickup of recyclables is available in both Edmond and Oklahoma City. Edmond allows for aluminum cans, clean glass bottles and jars, newspapers/ magazines/phonebooks, as well as plastic containers stamped with the numbers 1-7.