1. Recycling In The Dorms: SUNY Brockport, McFarlane Hall
Victoria Foos
Rozetta Smith

2. Recycling The reprocessing of materials into new products
Prevents useful material resources being wasted
Reduces the consumption of raw materials and reduces energy usage, and greenhouse gas emissions
Three R’s
Reduce the amount and toxicity of trash
Reuse containers and products
Recycle as much as possible

3. Reduce Waste prevention, or "source reduction,"
consuming and throwing away less
seeking products and packaging that are as free of toxics as possible
purchasing durable, long-lasting goods
redesigning products to use less raw material in production, or be used again after its original use
Prevents the generation of waste in the first place
most preferred method of waste management
goes a long way toward protecting the environment

4. Reuse Repairing items Donating to charity and community groups
Selling items
also reduces waste
Reusing products is better than recycling because the item does not need to be reprocessed before it can be used again

5. Recycle
Turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources
Generates a host of environmental, financial, and social benefits
Materials like glass, metal, plastics, and paper are collected, separated and sent to facilities that can process them into new materials or products
(“Reduce…”)

6. Researching Questioned Maintenance about recycling in the dorms
Most years recycling is a major problem
Residents uneducated on what to recycle
Males recycle less than females
Conducted survey

7. Survey Do you know what materials can be recycled in the dorms?
Do you use the recycling bin provided for you?
Did your Resident Assistant inform you about recycling at the beginning of the year
Do you leave your bin out for collection every week
Do you feel that the lack of recycling in the dorms is a problem
Do you feel that recycling tends to be a hassle

8. Floors vs. floors Floor 1 Floor 2 Floor 3 Question yes no 1 13 3 16 20
Floor 1
Floor 2
Floor 3
Question
yes no 1 13 3 16 20 2 7 9 17 18 5 11 6 14 4 12 8 19

9. Males vs. females Males Females Question yes no 1 23 5 26 2 16 12 3 22
Males
Females
Question
yes no 1 23 5 26 2 16 12 3 22 6 4 9 19 24 8 20 10 18

10. Hypothesis
If we get the residents in McFarlane involved in a contest, the amount of recycling will increase within the dorms

11. Objectives
Determine how educated people are on recycling overall by survey
Make residents start thinking about recycling/problems involved
Get students active in recycling
Get RA’s more involved depending on response from residents at conclusion of survey
Win a pizza party because Victoria lives on the second floor of McFarlane
Determine whether gender has anything to do with recycling trends

12. Methodology McFarlane Hall, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
Conducted Wednesday 25 April 2007 – Wednesday 2 May 2007
Materials
Flyers
Fish hook scale
Large garbage bags

13. Contest between all floors!!
Attention
McFarlanders
Contest between all floors!!
Starting Wednesday April 25th, collect all of your plastic and glass bottles and your cartons and put them outside your door the night of Tuesday May 1st. The floor with the greatest weight of recyclables collected on Wednesday May 2nd, will win a free pizza party…So start COLLECTING!!!!!
The first step in our experiment was to go around to each dorm room and inform students orally about the contest and post flyers on the main doors of McFarlane Hall. This is what our flyer looked like. We felt that this was the most effective way in getting the students involved

14. Methodology Cont…. Talk to maintenance
2 May 2007, Collect recyclables in plastic bags (separate by floors)
Weigh bags
Determine winners of contest
Receive Funding
Give pizza prize to winner

15. Before vs. After
Floor 1
Floor 2
Floor 3
Before 4 17 12
After 19 21

17. Limitations
On Floor 2, 11 dorms did not answer and may have been unaware of the contest
We heard reports of the 3rd floor stealing recyclables from the 2nd floor
Students probably forgot and possibly should have been reminded

18. Conclusions Floors 3 is the Winner Success in objectives
Our results related to the hypothesis, in that there was an increase in participation in recycling when a prize was involved
More contests in the future = greater results in recycling
Spread contest to other dorms and buildings
Give contest to custodians

19. Literature Cited
“Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.” Municipal Solid Waste. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency <

20. Questions?
RECYCLE