The blue bag program helps the recycling numbers here at the landfill. We need to be above 25 percent, and the state's goal is 50 percent.
Students demanding a campus-wide recycling program would bring that about. President Bryant is very interested in what students care about. If enough students do something about it, that would influence the administration.
He's engaged in a business of charging people for the movement of rubbish. To the best of our knowledge, he's not removing it to Eastern Maine Recycling in Southwest Harbor, and has not done so for three years.
Here, all waste will be viewed as a recycling opportunity.
It's a gentle nudge. We want all students to learn the basics of recycling and conservation.
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
These figures prove how much more people understand the importance of recycling compared with just four years ago,
In the 13 years that the recycling grants have been presented, we've awarded 245 grants, totaling more than $20 million.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.
When you weigh it against senior services and social services I don't think recycling is a critical need. I'm looking at priorities. If you're talking about what's important, recycling is not in the same category as firefighters.