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Columbus Technical College Gets "Green"

Columbus Technical College is going green. Students involved in the SkillsUSA program (a national vocational-technical education advocacy organization) are spearheading a campus-wide recycling effort. A kick-off event was held on April 10th from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM in the Student Center of Patrick Hall on the Columbus Technical College campus. While there, faculty, staff and students learned where the new recycling bins are located, what items can be recycled, and picked up facts on the project. Recycling bins have been placed around the campus to encourage everyone to “think green.”

Columbus Technical College Biology Program Manager, Amy Sandy, is helping the students get started. Part of the requirements for SkillsUSA includes a community service project. Sandy said this is the perfect opportunity to not only meet those requirements but for the students to start an important process.

“It'll be a lot of work since we'll have to deliver the recycled items to the appropriate places,” Sandy said. “But it will be worth it to know we've done our part to help the environment and learn something at the same time.”


April 10, 2008:  Columbus Technical College health sciences students and SkillsUSA participants, Rebecca Bishop and Kurt Szlaczky set up shop in the Student Center to teach their peers about a new recycling program on campus.

The plan is for aluminum cans to go the Ronald McDonald House, Plastic items will go to Goodwill Industries and paper items will go to All American Recycling.

For more information, please contact either Cheryl Myers/Director of Communications at (706) 649-1290 or cmyers@columbustech.edu or Amy Sandy (Fenech)/Project Coordinator at (706) 641-5282 or afenech@columbustech.edu.

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Updated: April 16, 2008.