{"id":52171,"date":"2018-08-22T08:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=52171"},"modified":"2018-08-23T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:25:51","slug":"glass-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/glass-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass-only recycling growing NAU’s sustainability efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAU is looking to bring the green this year! Five glass-only recycling bins have been added to campus for access by all students, faculty and staff. The bins are placed near the campus bookstore, Health and Learning Center, Applied Research and Development building, W. A. Franke College of Business and the South Village.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/span>NAU is known for\u00a0strong place-based\u00a0connections, from our vast ponderosa pine forests to our unique location on the Colorado Plateau,\u201d environmental caucus manager <\/span>Amanda Kapp<\/b> said. \u201cIt is important to make\u00a0a\u00a0connection between\u00a0this beautiful landscape and our everyday actions such as\u00a0recycling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NAU is no stranger to recycling. Through efforts such as <\/span>O2GO<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>NAU Green Jacks<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Sodexo\u2019s organic version of reprocessing<\/span><\/a> and more than 100 recycling bins already placed throughout campus, some may wonder\u2014why more? And why glass? <\/span><\/p>\n

The push for glass-only bins comes from Flagstaff\u2019s regulations about what can be recycled and how. Cities have rules based on its local recycling facilities, and in Flagstaff, glass cannot be commingled with other recyclable materials. This is due to the risk of glass breaking and becoming embedded into other materials, making them incapable of being recycled. In addition, there poses a risk of injury to workers at Flagstaff\u2019s Materials Recovery Center, who separate items by hand. <\/span><\/p>\n

The United States only recycles about 20 percent of its glass despite there being a strong market for it\u2014glass is one of the fastest materials to be recycled and reappear on store shelves. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith China no longer accepting many plastics intended for recycling, the market for recyclable plastics is dramatically decreasing,\u201d Kapp said. \u201cThis could mean that the market for glass may have room to grow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on NAU Green and a detailed map of where the new glass bins are located, visit <\/span>www.nau.edu\/glassrecycling<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAU is looking to bring the green this year! Five glass-only recycling bins have been added to campus for access by all students, faculty and staff. The bins are placed near the campus bookstore, Health and Learning Center, Applied Research and Development building, W. A. Franke College of Business and the South Village. \u201cNAU is…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":52199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}