Recycling is extremely important in attempting to protect our environment from further damage, and as a college student, using certain resources is unavoidable. That does not mean, however, that I can't make a solid effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle! It helps significantly that the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University pride themselves on being sustainable. Personally, I am able to reduce the amount of waste I produce because so many things are communal here. I eat very few items that aren't prepared in the dining hall, and when I do, it tends to be yogurt and other items in small containers that our recycling programs allows me to recycle. Since our dining facilities no longer use trays, all of us students are left to really only get as much food as we can fit on the number of plates we can carry. I notice myself only getting as much food as I will actually eat, so I know there is less of my waste that is being thrown away.
I try to reuse as many containers as I can so that they are not thrown away or recycled immediately. I use glass bottles to keep spare change and plastic containers to store leftover food. Even plastic bags come in handy for trash bags since they fit perfectly in my small dorm garbage can.
The recycling program at St. Ben's is wonderful. Everything from bottles to Kleenex boxes can be recycled in our co-mingled recycling program. I like knowing that there are so many materials that are being recycled rather than being burned in an incinerator or tossed into a landfill.
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