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Student dumps campus recycling petition
ALLISON TONNI
Issue date: 12/5/07 Section: News
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A petition for increased recycling on campus, with more than 1,000 student and faculty signatures, was halted weeks before the University Council's deadline to consider the petition.
University student Mark Milby said he withdrew the petition after he learned the University Physical Plant was planning to expand recycling.
"It was a petition for something that was already happening," said Milby, recycling committee head for Students for Environmental Awareness.
Milby wrote the petition with some friends in early September. Milby said he was tired of feeling as if students didn't have a voice in recycling, a huge issue on campus.
"The petition's purpose was to get the administration's attention and to convince them that campus recycling was an important student issue," Milby said. "We wanted to do things like put can and paper bins at high traffic areas like Tate Plaza, Myers Quad and East Campus."
Milby said he called in all of the signature sheets and ended the petition because the physical plant announced its intentions to initiate a campus recycling master plan.
Shortly after hearing about the physical plant's intentions, Students for Environmental Awareness met with the Student Government Association to get a voice in the master plan and with the University's physical plant to give input on what the students would like to see happen.
Rod Platt, manager of support services, said they are taking input from all student organizations for the master plan.
University student Mark Milby said he withdrew the petition after he learned the University Physical Plant was planning to expand recycling.
"It was a petition for something that was already happening," said Milby, recycling committee head for Students for Environmental Awareness.
Milby wrote the petition with some friends in early September. Milby said he was tired of feeling as if students didn't have a voice in recycling, a huge issue on campus.
"The petition's purpose was to get the administration's attention and to convince them that campus recycling was an important student issue," Milby said. "We wanted to do things like put can and paper bins at high traffic areas like Tate Plaza, Myers Quad and East Campus."
Milby said he called in all of the signature sheets and ended the petition because the physical plant announced its intentions to initiate a campus recycling master plan.
Shortly after hearing about the physical plant's intentions, Students for Environmental Awareness met with the Student Government Association to get a voice in the master plan and with the University's physical plant to give input on what the students would like to see happen.
Rod Platt, manager of support services, said they are taking input from all student organizations for the master plan.
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