{"id":2149,"date":"2009-09-03T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2009-09-03T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:08:49","slug":"students-lead-drive-to-make-move-in-more-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/09\/students-lead-drive-to-make-move-in-more-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Students lead drive to make Move-In more green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"recycle-sept09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/recycle-sept09.jpg\" alt=\"Recycling during Move-In 2009\" width=\"225\" height=\"279\" \/>Given that our school colors have been green and gold for over 100 years, one might figure that Baylor is already green enough. But as part of the University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/sustainability\" target=\"_blank\">continuing efforts to become more green<\/a>, a group of more than 40 student volunteers led a drive to help parents and new students recycle (rather than throw away) as much packaging and other materials as possible during <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/08\/move-in-day-welcomes-class-of-2013-to-baylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Move-In Day 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the students &#8212; part of the Entrepreneurship ELG (Engaged Learning Group) &#8212; helped recycle 10.6 tons during Move-In alone that otherwise would have gone to a landfill somewhere. Incoming students also received tips prior to their arrival on campus on how to make move-in more environmentally friendly; those living on campus even received in-room recycling bins to use throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>For the month of August, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=60630\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor more than doubled its recycling efforts<\/a> compared to a year ago, recycling 38.77 tons compared to 18.2 tons in August 2008. As we&#8217;ve noted before, such sustainability efforts help not only the environment, but also Baylor&#8217;s budget, saving the University thousands of dollars a year in landfill fees.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, recyclers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that our school colors have been green and gold for over 100 years, one might figure that Baylor is already green enough. But as part of the University&#8217;s continuing efforts to become more green, a group of more than 40 student volunteers led a drive to help parents and new students recycle (rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}