AOII
wins recycling competition
By Yoshinori Okada
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Recycling Competition launched this November
by the Associate Students Inc.’ s Recycling
Center and Conservation Commission at Cal
State Long Beach ended with Alpha Omicron
Pi as the first place winner.
The two A.S.I. organizations began this
first-time event with an aim to encourage
on-campus recycling, and seven campus clubs
and organizations participated, said the
assistant commissioner of the commission,
Dana Lebental, a senior political science
major.
Campus clubs, organizations and individual
students were encouraged to compete against
each other by bringing in recyclable materials
such as paper, cardboard, aluminum and plastic
to the recycling center, according to Kirsten
Stava, a coordinator of the center.
These recyclable materials collected from
the competitors were weighed at the Recycling
Center and converted to scores.
The participants were awarded five points
per pound for paper, 10 points for cardboard
and 15 points for aluminum.
As a result, Alpha Omicron Pi won the competition
with more than 28,000 points and was awarded
25 free massages by Dr. Rod Sarvis.
“It is so great for the members of Alpha
Omicron Pi to be recognized for our contributions
and it is a great way to end the semester,”
said Alyssa Draper, the former Alpha Omicron
Pi president.
“Recycle or Die” T-shirts and 100 varieties
of condoms from The Rubbertree, located
on Second Street, were awarded for the second
and third place winners, the On-line Forty-Niner
and Campus Crusade for Christ, respectively,
Stava said.
In addition to the contributions from the
seven official participants for the competition,
many other nonparticipants, from individual
students to departments, brought more recyclables
than they used to.
As a result of the competition, the amount
of the recyclables, mainly cardboard, totaled
one and a quarter ton during the month of
the competition, Stava said.
“I think it was very successful, considering
we’ve never done anything like this before,”
Stava said.
Stava said that the commission and the center
are expecting a lot more participation for
the next competition that is scheduled to
begin on next April because the month has
earth day.
The commission also is planning campuswide
advertising starting in February through
posters and campus media, such as the Forty-Niner
and Kbeach, Stava said.
For more information regarding the recycling
competition, contact the A.S.I Conservation
Commission at (562) 985-5241.
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