however, she has found this task a bit difficult. wawerski said that due to the limited funding from the niu university for campus recycling efforts, it can be a challenging job to increase the campus recycling. she is a student worker at building services. tammie pulak, who is sarah&rsquos boss and building services supervisor, came up with a cost saver solution to inspire recycling on campus. as an alternative to buying new recycling and trash bins, pulak decided to give the bins a solid look by having them revamped and relabeled. in the summer duration, wawerski along with the other employees of building services started the laborintensive procedure of cleanup, relabeling and redistributing the bins which are placed across the campus. pulak said that the new labels are placed on all bins that are inside the buildings located at east of normal road. the labels indicate throwing landfill in the black bins and recyclable material in the blue bins. these employees repainted the outdoor trash bins with black and few new recycling bins were added outside. new recycling and trash bins are situated all over the new residence hall complex. few of them are located in neptune central, zulauf hall, adams hall, douglas hall, and the stevenson towers. the cost of new recycling bins varies from 100 for a sole glutton container to 400 for a single silhouette bin. pulak and wawerski are hoping that the mentioned words &lsquorecycle&rsquo and &lsquolandfill&rsquo will increase the responsiveness about recycling and make people think about where their thrown items are going. wawerski said that they are hoping to see that the words mentioned on the bins will facilitate and encourage people to recycle. this initiative will make people better understand about what will be the end destination of their thrown materials. according to pulak, the new two bin system will reduce the chances of people throwing waste materials in recycling bins. this will reduce the contamination of trash with the recyclable material. old labels had many variations such as paper only, bottles and cans only and trash only. these many options were confusing people about where to throw the items. however, this two bin system will simplify this process as there will be just two options instead of several variations. pulak said that today, there is no need of physically sorting out the recyclable materials as it were years ago. in niu, single stream recycling system is being used. there is a facility to combine the recyclable material and then separate them at sorting facility. as the seasonal employees are gone, wawerski is left alone to do the task of relabeling and refurbishing the left over recycling bins. by the end of the fall summer, she is hoping to complete this entire process. however, this depends upon the number of available volunteer, as well. she is planning to go through the reports, which will be coming from the waste management department. it will make her understand if her initiative has showed any positive impact on the campus recycling. pulak said that sarah finds it frustrating when public choose not to recycle even after the facility is made easily available for them. pulak keep trying to encourage her and make her believe that her efforts are making a difference and increasing recycling in niu. pulak said that, at a time, she is making a one person difference. there is a great need to stick to that thought tightly. pulak further added that if they change one classroom, which is full of students in a year, that one person will be mindful of what is the best for the environment. source of information httpnorthernstar.infocampusnewsarticle1f9a8b46f65411e1b5bd001a4bcf6878.html
