Trash and More Trash

With seventy vending machines strategically scattered across the BYU campus, the Cougar Eat containing a plethora of bottled beverage choices, and of course having access to dirt cheap pallets of bottled water found at the nearest Wal-Mart, the students at BYU generally do not have any difficulty finding, locating, and consuming a most likely delicious bottle of drink of their choice. One might find this a positive thing. After all, it is a good thing to keep hydrated. The problem with this picture, however, is that once that student is done drinking that bottle, the only place to dispose of it is in the trash. BYU needs to establish a recycling program that in addition to recycling paper, cardboard, and aluminum cans, also recycles plastic bottles. If effectively started, by advertising recycling with posters across campus and in the school newspaper and also by providing easily accessible recycle bins, BYU can not only make a profit from selling the recycled plastic bottles to recycle plants, but can also better the environment that we live in.