{"id":6294,"date":"2013-08-27T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2014-01-14T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:47:30","slug":"recycle-station-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2013\/08\/27\/recycle-station-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle Station Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facilities Operations is implementing standard recycle stations in groups, with signage and standard colors for trash, recycling, and compost (where applicable) in interior common areas. This builds on last year&#8217;s project implemented by Facilities Operations to standardize exterior waste bins and a student intern project from Winter 2013. Both were funded by the <a title=\"Bellevue College SESF\" href=\"\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/sesf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Student Environmental Sustainability Fund (SESF)<\/a> and have the goal of diverting more waste from trash to recycling and compost.<\/p>\n<p>In Winter 2013 student Tahira Nurjaman did a campus-wide audit of interior common areas to identify where there was a glut of trash or recycling bins and which areas were missing bins. She then plotted and summarized her finding for facilities operations. Together they applied for <a title=\"Bellevue College SESF\" href=\"\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/sesf\/\" target=\"_blank\">SESF<\/a> funds to purchase new sign frames which attach directly to bins allowing custodians to remove old wall-signs and clean up the appearance of buildings and add new bins to keep it consistent.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the new look currently or coming soon to your building:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/waste.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6295 img-fluid \" alt=\"Bellevue College Recycling bins in a row\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/waste-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/waste-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/waste-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/waste-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/waste-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/Garbage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6298 img-fluid \" alt=\"Bellevue College Garbage can sign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/Garbage-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/Garbage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/Garbage-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/Garbage-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/08\/Garbage-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facilities Operations is implementing standard recycle stations in groups, with signage and standard colors for trash, recycling, and compost (where applicable) in interior common areas. This builds on last year's project implemented by Facilities Operations to standardize exterior waste bins and a student intern project from Winter 2013. Both were funded by the Student Environmental <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2013\/08\/27\/recycle-station-improvements\/\">...more about Recycle Station Improvements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[313,22,26],"tags":[49,55,56,58,60,69,70,120,188],"class_list":["post-6294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sesf","category-waste","tag-bellevue-college","tag-bellevue-college-office-of-sustainability","tag-bellevue-college-recycling","tag-bellevue-college-sustainability","tag-bellevue-college-sustainability-department","tag-bellevue-recycle","tag-bellevue-recycling","tag-facilities-operations","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions\/7585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}