Plastic Bag Recycling Challenge Ends April 8

This year MSUM’s Sustainable Students Association (SSA) has been hosting a six-month plastic bag recycling competition. It began in October and will end April 8. At present we have collected 60% of our 500 lb. goal. If MSUM reaches its goal, the university will receive a free bench made of recycled plastic, in addition to helping save the environment! When […]

Black Friday shopping = Piles of plastic bags?

While you are bagging bargains this Black Friday and Cyber Monday what are you going to do with the plastic bags and packaging your purchases come in? After a shopping spree at the mall you may find yourself amid dozens of plastic shopping bags and online purchases come with layers of bubble wrap. Your impulse might be to just toss […]