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<h1 class="headline">Reduce, reuse - redeem ourselves</h1>
<p class="byline">So It Goes.....By Nick Berman</p>
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<p>Sustainability. We all desire to hold on to what we are accustomed to
holding on to. Why then, would people who see multiple, obvious benefits
in an inexpensive program not choose to embrace such an activity that
would expand our sustainability on this planet? The program I am talking
about, which aids in our sustainability as a species and the planet,
is recycling. </p>
<p> Those soda bottles, aluminum cans, newspapers, reams of used office
paper and multitudes of other items (including ink cartridges—just go
to Office Depot and pick up the envelope) can be recycled. Recycling
is not simply a pastime for hippies or activists anymore. We as a society
recognize and deem the embracement and expansion of recycling a worthwhile
venture for ecological and responsibility reasons. </p>
<p> While we may not all pluck glass and plastic bottles from the ground
or sort our leftover school paper with much vigor, there are few who
would ardently fight recycling. Why then is it not occurring on a much
more expansive basis? Accessibility is the key. </p>
<p> The solution to practice recycling on a more significant scale would
be to provide an abundance of containers. If it is as easy providing
the receptacles to get people to recycle, why aren’t there more
of them at a very “educated” institution like Fresno State?
Fresno State isn’t as intelligent and progressive as we would like
to bill it as. </p>
<p> We need only look at what occurred when the United Pride club came
into existence and the crimes committed against their booth in Free Speech
Area. If we do that in our “Free Speech Area,” our liberal
outlet of alternate views, I shudder to think about what happens in the
more conservative areas and offices in our university every day.</p>
<p> It’s enough to make a hippie happily head back to Humboldt. But
retreating does not initiate action nor achieve anything for the greater
good. We need to face the fact that we need more receptacles for recycling
at Fresno State, not just those huge cement things that are placed so
close to concrete trash cans that people can barely tell the difference.</p>
<p> We need to have individual bins for plastic, glass and aluminum. But
I fear it’s quite a bit to ask from an administration that pleads
poverty on most issues. Do we have money for areas of improvement like
recycling at Fresno State? We have money for other things that aren’t
so necessary.</p>
<p> While a cell phone ringing when you are entrenched in studying can
be irksome, is there really a need for library security? I once heard
them
called “library courtesy clerks,” isn’t that what a
librarian is? </p>
<p> I think if we have funds enough for these “clerks” to run
around with secret service earpieces, we can find money for more recycle
bins. What about those 300 “No Cell Phone” banners in the
library? Does anyone else see the excessive waste and overkill with such
an immense amount of banners and the detraction from the library’s
spirit of independent education and thought?</p>
<p> College prepares us for our transition into the working and professional
world. It is vital our university heralds and embraces diversity in effort
to offer the most open education possible. Without that we face nothing
but stagnation and unchanging thought. While some may rejoice with the
thought of that, many others do not—they count too. If anyone from
the university would like to debate this with me, I can be reached through
my editor, until then I will be the guy saving his bottles in his backpack
because of all the trash in the recycling bins.</p>
<p> —
This columnist can be reached at collegian@csufresno.edu</p>
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