Employees recycle more, throw away less

Employees empty their own trash at the end of each day.

Starting this summer, MCC campuses are encouraging employees and students to waste less and recycle more as part of the ongoing efforts to “go green” and reduce our carbon footprint.
Trash cans in each office are being replaced with smaller containers to encourage faculty and staff to consider everything they can recycle before simply pitching it in the garbage. Large trash receptacles will be located in the hallways and common area as collecting points for the departments located within campus buildings. Employees are asked to empty their own trash and recyclable materials at the end of the day.

Paper, plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard, among other things, can all be placed in the large blue recycling containers also located in the hallways. At MCC-Maple Woods, the Student Activities Council will continue to collect paper recyclables.

This is just one of the many efforts that MCC is making, along with the other MCC campuses to conserve, recycle and reduce our impact on the environment.

“We need to do our part to sustain our campus in ways that reduce our costs and lessen our footprint on the environment,” said Bernard Franklin, president of MCC-Penn Valley.