For several years now, TCU has provided separate recycling containers labeled for newspapers, cans and plastics. The students are asked to dispose of the various recyclable items in blue trash bags and all other trash is to be thrown away in the black trash bags. Butler said a plan to recycle at TCU was derived five years ago. A plan was worked out with the staff and Residential Services. Hortencia Rivera, a housekeeper in Foster Hall, said Jarvis Hall, Sherley Hall, Colby Hall and Worth Hills have recycling facilities.
Guys just throw the recyclable items in the trash.
Every Wednesday the Residential Services' housekeeping staff pulls the recycling bags out of the residence halls and places them next to the trash dumpsters outside each hall. After the bags are placed outside the residence halls, Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service fraternity, comes by and picks up the bags in the afternoons. Kara Rees, a nursing major and a member of APO, said she drives a golf cart from the TCU Police headquarters, picks up the blue bags and takes them to the recycling bins in the freshman parking lot. The recycled trash remains in the recycling bins TCU rents out until the bins fill up and need to be emptied. Butler said Waste Management comes and picks up the recycling bins about once a month and replaces it with another one.