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Pass bag bill to help recycling

The Residential Concerns Committee is scheduled to present a recycling bill tonight to the Student Government Association. If the bill passes, residence halls would be required to distribute paper bags to each student upon check in — one bag for recyclable plastics and one for paper products.

We support this effort to make recycling easier for students living in residence halls.

Each residence hall currently contains recycling bins on each floor and student participation in recycling has been rather lax in the past. Already having bags in which to place recyclable items eliminates the hassle of sorting items to be recycled. Taking the bags to the larger recycling bins on each floor is not an added burden considering the bins are located near trash cans that students walk by all the time.

Other efforts to increase student participation in recycling, including posting signs in residence halls, have failed.

Each student should do his or her part to combat wastefulness, and recycling is an easy way to do that.

Recycling really doesn’t get much easier than this. Just toss the recyclable material in a provided bag until the bag gets full. Then walk down the hall to the bin.

We hope this bill passes because it simplifies something so we can all help make a big difference.y