Recyclination

Recyclination: The inclination to recycle.

Holly and I started a recycling blog as an assignment for one of our classes. The task was to design a project that explores the idea of making our university greener. We decided to create our blog and advertise it around campus, as well demonstrate the dent that “just two people” can make in the game of recycling. We feel that often times the act of recycling is not given a fair chance because an individual might assume, “I’m just me, just one person, and this one bottle that I throw in the trash isn’t going to matter.” So from now until December, we’ll be saving recyclables from their displacement in trash cans, parking lots—whatever crosses our paths—then returning them to their rightful recycling bin. We’ll be keeping track of how much we collect and posting photographs of our finds each day. We’ll be glorified bag ladies. We’ll probably get dirty looks. But by the end of our project, if all goes as planned, we hope to shed light on how much two people in one community can, in fact, make a difference.

Check out our project at http://recyclination.tumblr.com/