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Waste cans removed from EPB to encourage recycling

English and Philosophy building staff are encouraged to recycle in new bins placed throughout the building.

January 23, 2010

Daily Iowan TV highlights the UI's sort-free recycling program and a new pilot program to remove waste cans from classrooms in the English Philosophy Building.(story starts at 1:00) The EPB pilot project will encourage individual responsibility of students to divert waste and increase recycling by removing all items to centralized collection containers in the public hallways. Educational tabling was done in the highly traveled lobby of EPB for the first week of the spring semester. EPB is hoped to serve as a model for all classroom and lab buildings on campus.