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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- "Recycle Mania" is a campaign for several schools across the country to reduce the amount of waste, and increase the number of recyclables we throw out everyday.
This national effort was actually, dumped -- on the campus of Colorado College.
For those anywhere near downtown or C.C. on Thursday afternoon, they could literally "smell" the education.
"Trash Peak is a visual garbage installation to try to encourage people to divert some of the waste they would have thrown into the trash, into the recycling bin," said college student Sophie Glass.
Set up around the flagpole on Worner Quad and armed with only a pair of latex gloves while challenging their senses, volunteer students sifted through bag after bag to make their point.
"I think we're going to go through about 10 or 15 just to try to get a sample, because we estimate that people could probably be recycling about 50 percent of what they throw into the garbage. So this is kind of a way to see whether that hypothesis is right," Glass continued. "Right now we only recycle close to 20 percent of what we throw away."
The students remind the public that even though we throw trash away, it doesn't go away, and we should all be more conscious and responsible for the waste generated.
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