Rice students to be featured on TV this weekend

Rice students to be featured on TV this weekend

BY B.J. ALMOND
Rice News staff

Rice University’s participation in RecycleMania will be spotlighted this weekend on KIAH-TV’s “Going Green with Yolanda Green.”

The program will feature efforts by students at Rice, the University of Houston and the University of St. Thomas to promote waste reduction.

The news crew visited Rice last week to talk to Director of Sustainability Richard Johnson and several students who have been involved with RecycleMania: seniors Jeremy Caves and Erin Morrison and sophomore Becca Sagastegui. Senior Dhruv Venkatraman was filmed at Wiess College disposing of the recyclables he had collected. Senior Roque Sanchez was interviewed about the green benefits of the house that Rice students are building for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition.

The half-hour “Going Green” show will air on Channel 39 at noon Feb. 14 and at 10 a.m. Feb. 15. Segments from the show will be posted at http://www.39online.com/pages/going_green.

RecycleMania is a friendly 10-week competition among university recycling programs in the U.S. that provides the campus community with a fun approach to waste reduction. Campuses vie to collect the most recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita or have the highest recycling rate. Paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, glass containers and plastic bottles are among the recyclables. This year’s competition ends April 5.

For more information about recycling at Rice, including where to recycle on and off campus, visit http://recycle.rice.edu. To learn more about RecycleMania, visit www.recyclemaniacs.org.