Easy Being Green
The student Green Club at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham has influenced not only student behavior, but that of faculty and staff as well by lobbying for the placement of recycling bins throughout the campus and putting green footprints on the floors and walkways leading up to them.
The club also was catalyst to the University’s participation in Recyclemania and the Global Climate Challenge. It has run Earth Day poster design contests and helped organize a campus-wide Green Day last spring to recognize, share and celebrate the contribution that each member of the campus and community can make to the overall goal of sustainability.
One of the largest projects undertaken by the club is Move-out Week, during which club members work to create awareness of sustainability and conservation and to reduce wasteful practices when FDU’s residence halls are vacated at the end of the spring semester.
Donation boxes are placed in every residence hall for students to put their unwanted usable, non-perishable food, bottles and cans and household items. On the final move-out day, students and faculty go from dorm to dorm around the campus sorting, loading and transporting what is collected to the appropriate places.
In addition, several Goodwill clothing bins have been placed on campus for students to use to donate their unwanted, usable clothing. The club plans to make Move-out Week an annual tradition.
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