Have you ever held an item in your hand just before tossing it into the trash bin and thought, should I recycle this? The new dorm recycling program was created to help make this choice easy.
Recycling is good for the environment and helps reduce pollution and waste in landfills and oceans, but for it to be effective, it needs to be accessible and convenient. This is one of the factors behind the success of Peterson AFB’s recycling effort.
“When I first got (to Peterson) I was surprised to see there were no recycle bins in the dorms. I grew up where having a recycling bin in your kitchen was common; it was just something that everyone did. It was something I never really thought about until it wasn’t there,” said Airman 1st Class Alex Smalldon, 21st Security Forces Squadron reports and analysis, and volunteer dorm recycling program creator.
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