LETTER: Remember to recycle

Editor,

Is recycling such a household name now that people give it little thought in their daily lives, especially as students and faculty of USU, that they actually forget to do it? One day I was walking into the Business Building from the south side. There was a person throwing away a ton of books and papers. There are two Dumpsters and a recycling station set up there. Guess where the person threw the stuff into? The trash Dumpsters! I was shocked; the recycling bin was right there next to the person. I often see this in less quantity through out different buildings. I’d like to recognize those diligent people who do so much recycling that it makes this editorial look like a waste of paper and should be recycled immediately!

So as I have thought about that Business Building trash choice, it made me think really hard why that could happen. Maybe recycling has been around for so long now that people are tired of the effort. While I concede the hard stumbling block it is for lifting paper into a BLUE recycling bin is a harder color choice than putting it into a BLACK trash bin. And yet there must be something more exhausting. It must be the hard choice of going two extra steps to get to the recycling bin. I know that path is usually laid with spikes, thorns, and pitfalls which make the long trek unbearable for most to overcome. But maybe it is the simple fact that the recycling bins have a cloaking device which makes it invisible to people inside the building. As an engineering student, I know that the NR group of students must have implanted these devices to deceive all, in order to complain about recycling! That’s right; you can walk right past a bin in every building on campus, maybe even several of them and not even know they are there!

So I call for a removal of the “cloaking” devices, spikes and pitfalls, and our fear of the color blue, and begin a new quest to recycle!

John Sapp