Being the driving force behind Emory's recycling program, students are simultaneously the focus as well as force of the program. This integration raises students' environmental consciousness while giving them real world skills through direct work with the recycling program. Emory Recycles feels that it is essential to teach students environmental responsibility in both practice and principle, so that they will take this vision with them beyond the walls of campus and implement it in other facets of their lives. Ball State University's first two Greening of the Campus conferences in April 1996 and September 1997 each attracted 200 participants from about 30 states and a few foreign countries for a successful international exchange of ideas on environmental concerns. Emory Recycles won the American Forest and Paper Association's Best Paper Recycling Award in 1999.
Finalists receive a plaque recognizing their contribution to paper recovery and recycling.
Emory Recycles was proud to have earned this prestigious award. Emory University was host site for the 2000 College and University Recycling Council's Eastern Region Annual Conference Series. Put on by the NRC and CURC, these regional conferences are a great way to provide access to information and networking opportunities for college and university recycling staff that was previously not available to them because of travel barriers preventing their attendance at CURC national workshops. Being given the opportunity to host such a prestigious event was a great compliment to our program.