University of Miami has made some drastic changes to the recycling program that has been in place since 1991. The early program was far from successful because there was not much movement to clean up the environment, it was not a push in that decade. In the past years it appears to be eminent that changes are happening around the globe that are not only going to effect nature, but the health of all of earths inhabitants. It seems that the best way to start being more economical is to start recycling.
This seems like a fairly simple process, and with good reason. Recycling from our point on campus does not take much energy for us. With the changes that UM has made it is becoming more and more simple to recycling instead of just throwing away. Bottles, Cans, Newspapers etc. no longer have to be sorted here but dumped into the same bin. The sorting was a big deterrent for many students to recycle. The recycling bins are now located all across the Coral Gables campus and in all five of the residence halls. This will hopefully facilitate the recycling process.
The massive bins of recyclable waste gets sent to a plant in Pembroke Pines, where they sort the recyclables. Overall University of Miami is preventing about 25 tons of waste and instead is recycling it. This so-called "Single Stream" recycling also hs another benefit other than students having to sort their own empty bottles and cans. Single stream accepts many more things to be recycling including paperback books and folders, even shoe boxes. The more that can be recycled the better so this step forward that University of Miami has made with their recycling program will be a small step to the other Green movements that still have to be made on campus.
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