BU Book Recycling

Students in RHET 380 interested in educating the Binghamton University campus on textbook recycling options.

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1 ton of textbook recycling saves the amount of oil that would run an average car for 1,260 miles.

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The EPA has found that making paper from recycled materials results in 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution.

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Paper and cardboard combine to make up 73% of the materials in landfills.

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Americans throw away the equivalent of more than 30 million trees in newsprint each year.

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Students: Head over to the New Union, there's an awesome #PeaceConference going on! Topics include: guns on campus, peace studies, etc.

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Please familiarize yourself with the NRC. http://t.co/XBR1oP7U2c #progress

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Georgian Forests Face Burning Issue #forest #deforestation http://t.co/gutMFkGcso

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Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute! Think about all those cute jungle-cats that are becoming homeless! :-(

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TEACHERS/PROFESSORS: put your notes/class-material online. Everybody wins! #Notextbooks #noLandfills #savetheplanet

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Tired of the bookstores giving you 25 cents for a book you paid 100+ dollars for? Do what I do! #savetheplanet #RecycleIt

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@hugthesun What are you gonna do with your chem texbook after you fail your test?!

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#ReduceReuseRecycle

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Fact: 37% of K-12 schools store old textbooks because they don't know how to dispose of them http://t.co/UxCut6qo We should recycle instead!

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@alex_fulford Way to go! Make sure to put it in the right bin, we wouldn't want that clunky textbook ending up in a #landfill

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After every test I finish this week, I'm gona throw the notes/textbook etc for the class in the recycling on the way out

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Unsold #books at Goodwill are now being #recycled to make new paper products: http://t.co/AtZnl1EURn #thriftstore #read

[Three Rivers District Council @ThreeRiversDC]

New Book Reuse and Recycling Scheme http://t.co/g2B9dfboYz

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There is a very simple thing that you can do right now to positively impact the environment: Use less stuff!!

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If you're thinking about buying #Christmas wrapping paper, buy real paper & avoid the shiny/metallic types as they are harder to #recycle.

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In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space. #KeepMovingForward