Everyday we are bombarded with messages about being more environmentally friendly. When I see this, I stop and think about how much work that takes to do that. But in reality the littlest changes in your day to day tasks can help.
After doing the research for this sustainability essay, I soon realized that helping the environment is quite simple. You don't have to go to the extent of planting 1000 trees, or trading your car in for a bike, just pay attention to which trash can to throw your waste into. In Baker, Grover cafe, the library, and about any other building on campus, there are different bins for disposals. You chose to toss it in the trash, compost or plastic bins. Don't know which one to chose? Just look at the pretty pictures about that inform you of the correct receptacle.
These separations help by keeping the environment and campus more sustainable. The plastic gets recycled and the compost gets sent to the compost machine which is turned into reusable soil. With both of these items being deducted, it reduces the amount of trash sent to the land fill. If all that is being done just by choosing which bin to toss my trash into, then I don't think it's a hard choice for me to make to help keep our campus sustainable.
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