Response to Matt Miller

Dear Matt Miller,

As the new co-presidents of DURP and Green Team we would like to address your concern
about the recycling infrastructure. We agree with you that the recycling bins are too
small and inadequately labeled. Students should know that we’ve outsourced our recycling
to Big “O”, who takes care of recycling and trash for the greater Granville area so as a
student group we don’t have control over location, emptying or bin size. Other barriers
attributing to this are lack of funding and student support.

On the other hand, all over campus there are currently many bins not being fully utilized
and this causes us to wonder: 1) Why doesn’t the majority of Denison’s population recycle
when there is a recycling bin right next to the trash can? Is it a lack of motivation,
education or is it solely poor infrastructure? 2) What do students need from DURP in
order to increase recycling on campus?

If you have any ideas about what we as a student group can do to help this change on
campus we’d love for you to come to a Green Team/DURP meeting-Tuesdays at 9 p.m. in
Barney Davis- to help us improve our current recycling system. We’re glad to see people
are taking notice of this problem and encourage conversation of what they think can be
changed on campus!


Nicki Jimenez and Juliana Lisuk
Co-Presidents of Green Team and DURP (Denison University Recycling Program)

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