2008 Woodie Awards
Contest promotes campus recycling
By: Shawn Dooley
Issue date: 4/6/06 Section: News
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Webster University is not talking trash when it encourages students, faculty and the surrounding community to recycle all paper on campus. Webster is participating in the 2006 Great Paper Drive for the first time.
The 2006 Great Paper Drive is a recycle paper contest that measures the quantity of paper disposed in four paper retrievers across the campus. The contest is held through April and May.
The four paper retrievers are big, green and yellow dumpsters. It accepts: magazines, shopping catalogs, newspapers, office and school paper and mail. The bins are located in parking lot D behind Webster Hall, between the Sverdrup Business Complex and the Visual Arts Studios, the parking lot of the Webster Village Apartments, and in parking lot K behind the Sam Priest Center.
"We are third in quantity of paper picked-up right now, but it would be nice to increase the quantity, to become number one," said Jodie Vogler, grounds supervisor.
Quinn Gardner, treasurer of the Outdoors Club, said, "This is a great initiative by the school and shows their dedication to the recycling program." Gardner said that she has seen much progress, in the past few months, with the recycling program and hopes that students continue to support the school's efforts.
The contest is broken into four sub-categories: private schools, public schools, places of worship, and a separate category for all others. Then, there are three main categories: accounts with one paper retriever, accounts with two or three paper retrievers, and accounts with four or more paper retrievers.
Webster's deposits of paper are compared to other schools, in the same category, in four other cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Chicago, and Houston. The prizes at stake are third place for $1,100, second place for $1,500, and first place for $2,000. These prizes are awarded to the recycling program of the winning schools.
Vogler hopes to place third or higher because the money would be useful in helping to continue improving the recycling program. "I might even be able to educate interested students about recycling, by taking them to a recycling convention this summer," Vogler said.
Webster gets a boost from neighboring Nerinx Hall High School because it uses Webster's paper retrievers. Nerinx doesn't have enough paper recycling to have its own retriever.
"The more the paper, the fuller the bins; the more word gets out about this contest, the better off we will be," Vogler said.
She thinks Webster has an aggressive recycling program,
unlike many other schools, and becoming number one in the paper drive is possible. She is hoping people in the community deposit their paper in Webster's bins and with an increase in the campus' recycling, this goal can be reached.
The 2006 Great Paper Drive is a recycle paper contest that measures the quantity of paper disposed in four paper retrievers across the campus. The contest is held through April and May.
The four paper retrievers are big, green and yellow dumpsters. It accepts: magazines, shopping catalogs, newspapers, office and school paper and mail. The bins are located in parking lot D behind Webster Hall, between the Sverdrup Business Complex and the Visual Arts Studios, the parking lot of the Webster Village Apartments, and in parking lot K behind the Sam Priest Center.
"We are third in quantity of paper picked-up right now, but it would be nice to increase the quantity, to become number one," said Jodie Vogler, grounds supervisor.
Quinn Gardner, treasurer of the Outdoors Club, said, "This is a great initiative by the school and shows their dedication to the recycling program." Gardner said that she has seen much progress, in the past few months, with the recycling program and hopes that students continue to support the school's efforts.
The contest is broken into four sub-categories: private schools, public schools, places of worship, and a separate category for all others. Then, there are three main categories: accounts with one paper retriever, accounts with two or three paper retrievers, and accounts with four or more paper retrievers.
Webster's deposits of paper are compared to other schools, in the same category, in four other cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Chicago, and Houston. The prizes at stake are third place for $1,100, second place for $1,500, and first place for $2,000. These prizes are awarded to the recycling program of the winning schools.
Vogler hopes to place third or higher because the money would be useful in helping to continue improving the recycling program. "I might even be able to educate interested students about recycling, by taking them to a recycling convention this summer," Vogler said.
Webster gets a boost from neighboring Nerinx Hall High School because it uses Webster's paper retrievers. Nerinx doesn't have enough paper recycling to have its own retriever.
"The more the paper, the fuller the bins; the more word gets out about this contest, the better off we will be," Vogler said.
She thinks Webster has an aggressive recycling program,
unlike many other schools, and becoming number one in the paper drive is possible. She is hoping people in the community deposit their paper in Webster's bins and with an increase in the campus' recycling, this goal can be reached.