As you finish your last sip of water from your bottle, you search for a recycling bin to throw your bottle away.

To your dismay, you will find that on campus there aren’t any simple recycling areas for you to throw away your bottle.

In a time where recycling bins are found in most areas, EC’s lack of a designated area adds to the fact that the campus needs to become more up-to-date with it’s recycling areas.

It shouldn’t take a proposal from the Associate tudents Organization to petition for these simple things for the college to take notice the vast lack of recycling options on campus.

The campus could fix this issue fairly quickly by adding recycling bins at every building.

The college can also inform students when the changes are made so they can help make the campus more environmentely friendly.

According to dosomething.org, the average person generates over four pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid was per year.

Also of that 1.5 tons 75 percent of is is recyclable, but only about 30 percent of it is recycled.

The numbers are astonishing considering the fact the the campus doesn’t have any designated recycle areas where students can easily throw away their recyclable items.

Along with becoming a more eco-friendly campus, the college would reduce the number of non-school related people from coming on campus to scavenger the trash for bottles.

While the issue may seem small, across the nation americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles an hour according to dosomething.org.

By adding a recycle bin in every class, EC would help reduce the amount of trash that is picked up and transported to landfills.

This reduction would help the amount of pollution that is emitted.

While the number wouldn’t be great the campus would help.

So, while the campus may be hesistant in approving such a petition, it should also realize all the benefits that having a recycling program could bring.

This isn’t about just throwing away paper, plastic, and aluminum properly, but it would aslo help EC catch up to what a lot of other college are doing in the area.

Recyling should already be on campus and EC should stop wasting time.