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Join the Dumpster Dive VI organized by the Green Efforts Committee at GCC on April 18, 2013, where over 40 students and 5 faculty members collected 85+ bags of trash. Learn how Earth Week initiatives like recycling paper, plastic, glass, and aluminum can reduce landfilled waste by 75%. Did you know, recycling every 220,000 sheets of paper saves 17 trees? Make a difference by using ceramic mugs instead of disposable cups, and switching from plastic body wash bottles to bar soap can prevent millions of pounds of plastic from hitting landfills. Discover GCC's efforts to increase recycling rates from 20% and the impact of their Trash Analysis by Volume on Earth Day 2013. Let's continue these green efforts for a sustainable future!
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Dumpster Dive VI Green Efforts Committee + 85 bags of trash, 40+ students and 5 GCC faculty Earth Week @ GCC 4/18/2013
“If everyone in America recycled paper, plastic, glass and aluminum, we could decrease waste sent to landfills by 75%.” “Every 220,000 sheets of paper that are recycled saves 17 trees”
“Use a ceramic mug for coffee. Americans use 14 billion paper cups each year, more than enough to circle the earth 55 times.”
“If every household replaced a single bottle of body wash with a bar of soap roughly 2.5 million lbs of plastic containers would not end up in a landfill.”
GCC could recycle ~20% of the waste it currently sends to the landfill. (Down from 40% in 2008)
GCC Campus Sustainability DayOctober 24, 2012 Five Years of Green EffortsFive Years of Green Efforts Five Years of Green Efforts
