The Sandspur

Issue date: 11/19/04 Section: News

Media Credit: Selena Moshell PROMOTING THE CAUSE: Morgan Williams, ´07, makes a recycling pin at Eco-Rollins´ America Recycles table.

Media Credit: Selena Moshell AMERICA RECYCLES: Ariel Palmer, ´07, holds a banner announcing America Recycle´s Day here at Rollins.

On Monday, November 15th, events were held all across the nation in honor of America Recycles Day. Here at Rollins, the Rollins Recycling Program held a Recycling Fair, featuring carnival games, prizes, giveaways, and raffles. The carnival-like atmosphere was created with three festival games. ROC provided a game featuring three small recycling bins covered with poster board to create a bottle-tossing game of skill. Another game followed the traditional carnival model of a pyramid of cans to be brought down with a ball, but the Rollins Recycling Team gave the game a recycling twist. The cans were placed over a recycling bin, and the aim was not only to knock over cans, but to land them in the recycling bin as well! Finally, a game with an educational angle featured a paper recycling bin and a co-mingling recycling bin. The aim was to sort the bag of assorted items into the bins that they could be recycled in.

As prizes for the games, the Recycling Program gave away the traditional and ever popular canvas "Rollins Recycles, Reduces, and Reuses" bags. Within these bags were pencils, bookmarks, Frisbees, and coasters, all composed of post consumer recycled materials. Sodexho generously provided free water bottles, and each bottle had a label containing facts about recycling. Buttons with slogans such as "Recycling is the new Pink," and "Kiss me I recycle," were also given away. This year, custom buttons were offered, with two Recycling delegates creating buttons right before your eyes. The buttons are always popular, with "I Love Guys Who Recycle" and "I Love Ladies Who Recycle" being the most popular buttons of the day.

The large prizes included a Ford SUV Hybrid sweepstakes, which is held statewide by the EPA of Florida. Many were interested in this prize, and lined up to get their entry slip. The local prizes were a $25 and $50 gift certificate to Rainforest Café, which were won by Laurie Gardner and Morgan Williams, respectively.

All of these games and giveaways were for a good cause, to educate about the Recycling Program and recycling on campus. There were display boards informing us what items are recyclable and what are not, as well as what the recycled bottles and cans turn into in the end. There were also donations taken for the Tyre Café, led by a man who creates beautiful handbags, among other items, to raise money for a charity in Africa. Cell phones and clothes were also collected to be recycled, and of course, bottles and cans were recycled through the Rainforest Café raffle. The contestant wrote their name and box number on a bottle and recycled it, to be drawn later. Every event and booth had some creative recycling twist, which made the event not only very entertaining, but educational as well. America Recycles Day was a huge success not only nationwide, but also at Rollins. Look out for this day to be 'recycled' and come back next November 15th. There's no doubt that the Rollins Recycling Program will have more giveaways, more games, and more fun, charming, and informative events again next year.

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