University of Waste
How do you support a zero waste lifestyle if the university you go to doesn’t support it? I decided today was the right day to talk about this issue since I decided to get dinner at our university’s food court. After not having eaten there in a year, I noticed the plastic problem we really have. If you’ve been to the movies you may have seen a small dispenser on the counter where a single straw would come out of. We had a similar contraption last year at this university for plastic silverware. Somehow this year we’ve gotten worse with our plastic waste and those dispensers are nowhere to be found. Now instead, there are baskets full of individually wrapped plastic silverware creating even more plastic waste. Though most of the plastic in our food court is recyclable, there seems to be a surplus of garbage cans and not many recycling ones. Upon walking around, this was the common set up I saw… Even the things that can be recycled are being thrown away because of convenie...