Photo from MTSU Magazine
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Patrick Doyle, Biology faculty member, explains the history of the recycling
program at MTSU.
"They can use the aluminum for anything you use aluminum for, including making new airplanes, or making engine blocks, or doing aluminum foil, or anything else that you want. And there, the energy savings is 95%. Ninety-five percent--it is extraordinary. And then the question is, why do we have an option? If we've got problems with air pollution, and water pollution, and resource depletion, why do we have a choice? I don't understand that--why we don't mandate it, or why we don't take it upon ourselves to do it even if it's not mandated when it would clean up the air, clean up the water, and save resources for future generations." |