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Volunteers from Michigan Technological University menâs club volleyball â alumnus Matthew Radloff of Appleton, Wisconsin; Alex Roelant, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student; and Ian Blair, a masterâs of business administration student â sort plastic bags during the second annual Waste Reduction Drive Saturday.
HOUGHTON At least 31,000 items otherwise bound for a landfill were collected for reuse Saturday as part of the second annual Waste Reduction Drive.
Members of Michigan Technological University’s Sustainability Demonstration House and other volunteers collected items at Tech’s Student Development Complex.
Event organizer Rose Turner, a graduate student and SDH resident, was glad to see residents put in so much effort to divert their waste. The event is also intended to show people how many opportunities there are to reuse those products. A station outside the SDC had pamphlets on
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Kendra Lachcik (left) and Rose Turner (right) discuss the Earth Day dinner coming to the McNair Dining Hall on Apr. 22.
HOUGHTON On Apr. 22, the Michigan Tech Sustainability Demonstration House (SDH) will be hosting a special Earth Day Dinner at the McNair Dining Hall on Tech’s Campus.
This event open only to MTU students and faculty will focus on plant-based diets, healthy composting habits such as diverting food waste from landfills, and using compostable utensils and food containers.
“90% of the dinner’s components are plant-based, so we will still have a couple meat options,” Kendra Lachcik, an MTU student with the Sustainability Demonstration House explained,