Y Free The TREES!

Can we go green?!?! Please?!?!

This is the second school year that the Campus YMCA has had its recycling program on campus. Currently, we are only able to do paper recycling, however we do have a bin! The YMCA has a paper bin behind the Spirit Shoppe. Okay, so it isn't the best location, but we have it! We have paper recycling located in all academic buildings on campus.

The YMCA is often paired with the Natural Science Club here on campus because we are both trying, and I mean trying to convince the university to go green.

Currently, we are supporting the Natural Science Club as they try to get campus wide recycling of all kinds here. It is a work in progress.

There have been several members of the YMCA who have taken it upon themselves to set up recycling bins for other things such as plastics and glass in their dorms. We then take this to our Campus YMCA house, where our graduate assistant, takes it to her house in Kirkwood where it is picked up and recycled.


Yes, it'd be easier if there were more recycling on campus...but it is changing...slowly...
As the video on the Media Talk said, "They [gen y]are environmentally conscious, peace loving. They volunteer in record numbers." We are a generation making a difference through things like being environmentally friendly.