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Earth Week @ GCC4/18/2013
Green Efforts Committee +85 bags of trash, 40+ students and 5 GCC faculty
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“Every 220,000 sheets of paper that are recycled saves 17 trees”
“If everyone in America recycled paper, plastic, glass and aluminum, we could decrease waste sent to landfills by 75%.”
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“Use a ceramic mug for coffee. Americans use 14 billion paper cups each year, more than enough to circle the earth 55 times.”
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“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.”
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GCC could recycle ~20% of the waste it currently sends to the landfill.(Down from 40% in 2008)
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Earth Day 2013 - Trash Analysis by Volume
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Thanks — you rock!
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Five Years of
Green EffortsFive Years of Green Efforts
Five Years of Green Efforts
GCC Campus Sustainability Day
October 24, 2012