Go Green with Recycle Garbage Bins

15:15, December 17, 2018

Five sets of recycle bins were installed in the main building of the university

The idea to install bins for separate waste collection was proposed by the second year students Iulia Grishchenko, Maria Chernyadieva and Viktoria Kuznetsova (GSEM UrFU). The initiative was supported by the Students Union.

‘We want to make sure that students will throw paper and plastic into the right containers. Therefore, the next month we are testing the possibility of separate waste collection in the main campus,’ says Viktoria Kuznetsova.

The bins are installed in the most popular places: at a coffee shop in the hall, near the Students Union, in the corridors on the third floor of the Graduate School of Economics and Management and the Intitute of New Materials and Technologies, at the entrance to the co-working “Antresoli”.

As the containers are filled, specialized organizations will take waste to recycling facilities. In case of success, the project can be implemented in the other campuses of the university.

‘In addition to separate waste collection, we also plan to install containers for batteries in the future, and provide dormitories’ yards with special containers for collecting plastic waste,’ said Sergey Sergeev, first deputy chairman of the Students Union.

The activists of the Students Union also organized the collection of paper waste for university administrative and academic staff.