Harding becomes more environmentally conscious by starting a. RECYCLING PROGRAM Recycling garbage has for some time been on the minds of various students and faculty members . People like Dr. William Ryan, a faculty advocate , and members of RENEW (Realize the Environmental Necessity to the Earth noW) advocated Harding's involvement in recycling efforts , but the problem of cost-efficiency clouded their vision. However, that cloud began to dissipate in 1992 when members of RENEW presented Lott Tucker, Harding's vice president for finance , with some ideas concerning a solution to the problem. After the meeting, Tucker contacted key officials and began to lay the groundwork for a recycling program. Within months , the Harding administration produced a well-formulated plan for a campus recycling project. The fall semester marked the beginning of this "dream come true. " With the anticipated completion of Searcy's first recycling center (a building project launched by Mayor David Evans) , Clyde Owen, director of buildings and services at Harding, supervised the purchase and installation of a Cam2 compactor and a 40-yard dumpster, both situated near the physical plant, and a food mulcher, which was installed behind the dishwasher unit in the cafeteria. Although these three units were operational by December, the hard-core recycling did not begin until spring. Once the project was in full swing, students placed their aluminum cans in designated dispensers , while disposing of all other trash in garbage cans at the bottom of each dormitory stairwell. In offices, staff and faculty members separated their garbage in three ways: white paper, aluminum cans and nonrecyclable trash. Those departments on campus which produced large amounts of cardboard waste separated used cardboard and all other non-recyclable materials . Maintenance workers picked up, separated and disposed of the garbage, and members of the Searcy Sanitation Department made pickups regularly. This new disposal system proved more cost-efficient than the old one for one reason: the less non-recyclable garbage Harding produced, the less Harding paid Searcy to transport it to the landfill . - Michael Carter GregHale collects a loadof trash outside the artgallery . Harding 's new recy cling prog ram eliminated this method of collecting. Photo by Jason Bu rt. Angela Spindler - Medina, OH Tove Sporsheim - Kristiansu, Norway Shawn Spradley - Poplar Bl uff, MO Kevin Spradling - Pasadena, TX Beth Spurlock - BentonviUe, AR Kris Steele - Plano, TX Leslie Stegall - El Dorado, AR Darren Still - Grandview, WA Amy Stinnett -Jackson , MO Alden Strealy - Tigard. OR Sophomores ~-----.,c=;,- 85 Classes
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