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November 11, 2014Nicholls celebrates America Recycles Day with a new on-campus recycling program beginning today.
Keep Louisiana Beautiful, a non-profit anti-littering organization, provided the university with a Healthy Community Grant worth $8,615 to place recycle bins across campus. The grant will also cover the cost for recycle bins through May.
Nicholls G.R.E.E.N. Club and Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program pushed forward for the grant to give Nicholls another way to keep the campus cleaner.
“For about five years, we had paper-recycling only and that ended this year. Thanks to the grant, we are able to get everything recycled, at least for a while,” Mass Communication Professor and Nicholls G.R.E.E.N. Club member Dr. Andrew Simoncelli said. “Our hope is that people use it and use it correctly. It is about $75 per month per dumpster.”
BTNEP Education Coordinator Alma Robichaux said joining the cause was an easy decision for their organization to make.
“BTNEP offices are on Nicholls campus so that really helped get us involved. We have been trying to get recycling programs at different high schools,” Robichaux said. “Nicholls approached us because they did not have one. We worked some of the events to get the kids involved. We gave out magnets to students to put on their refrigerators in their dorms just encouraging them to recycle. We hope we can get the bins into the dorms so they can have a dorm competition to get people in the habit of recycling.”
Nicholls will celebrate America Recycles Day and the new program today in the university quadrangle from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The event is open to anyone and includes music, activities and information about the programs.
