Campus • The
student-run recycling center provides
access for on-and-off campus recyclers
to do their share in keeping a better
environment. The center is located
near The Walter Pyramid in Lot 14. Tracey
Roman / Daily Forty-Niner
Student-run
recycling center, carpool service helps
environmental causes
By
Andy Reyes
Daily Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
When one encounters litter on the ground daily, Cal State Long Beach is aware
of the importance of supplying facilities and support to encourage environmental
preservation.
Associated Students, Inc., provides a student-run recycling center, providing
recycling opportunities for students, non-state campus operations and the general
public. The center is located at 5800 Atherton St., west of The Walter Pyramid
in Lot 14.
Because unrecycled material is sent to landfills, the ASI recycling center
is able to reprocess the material it collects annually that would have ended
up taking over valuable land space. The recycling center works to help save
energy costs and reduce pollution in order to help preserve a cleaner environment.
Students interested in more information can access the ASI student recycling
Web site, available through www.csulb.edu.
Administrator to the ASI Conservation Commission Shelena McClinton said the
Conservation Commission, a liaison to the ASI recycling center located on campus,
works to help students understand the need to do their part in helping the
environment.
“The Conservation Commission basically helps maintain a positive, earth-friendly
focus here on campus,” she said. “We put on various events here like
a big Earth Day celebration and various beach clean-ups.”
Joey Calmer, a member of the Conservation Commission, also puts forth effort
in helping to maintain the environment and letting students know how important
it is. Students need to realize the importance of helping the environment because
its resources are rapidly being depleted, Calmer said.
“It’s really helpful to have our generation become more aware that
our lifestyle is not going to [be sustained] for very much longer,” he
said. “We’re going to have to change a lot of things. And so, if
you learn [to recycle] now, we can all be better later.”
Calmer said there are many things students can do to carry out their part in
helping preserve the environment. Students do not have to limit themselves
to worrying about ground pollution.
The Conservation Commission has set up a MySpace account for CSULB students
to find people to carpool with. Through the Web site they specify they are
hoping to make it easier for students to find others who are interested in
carpooling thereby lessening the traffic.
In addition to the ASI recycling center and Conservation Commission carpooling
program, the facilities management office at CSULB also provides a recycling
center.
The Facilities Management corporate
yard, located on the eastern end
of campus along Palo Verde Avenue,
serves to keep the campus attractive
for the people
who work and study here through the preservation of its physical facilities
and grounds areas, according to their Web site, available through www.csulb.edu.
Their recycling center takes everything from mixed paper, plastic, ink toners
and green waste to electronic components, batteries, wood and even those
little foam packing peanuts that come in cardboard box shipments.
Also, a statement on their Web site says they believe recycling conserves
valuable natural resources, reduces energy consumption in the manufacturing
of goods,
creates jobs, extends the life of landfills, and reduces disposal costs.
Students and faculty interested in more information on recycling or carpooling
can go to the school’s Web site, www.csulb.edu. Or, they can go to www.myspace.com/csulbcarpooling.
Students can also call McClinton at the ASI office, (562) 985-5241 or e-mail
Calmer at jcalmer@csulb.edu.
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