{"id":52188,"date":"2013-12-08T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52188"},"modified":"2013-12-08T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:14:42","slug":"morrisville-state-gets-recycling-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52188","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville State Gets Recycling Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mollie Carter, Public Relations Intern<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Morrisville-state-logo.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36354\" alt=\"Morrisville state logo\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Morrisville-state-logo.bmp\" \/><\/a>(Morrisville, NY \u2013 Dec. 6, 2013) Morrisville State is one of several schools to receive funding from the first-ever College Council Grant Program conducted by the New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling (NYSAR3).<\/p>\n<p>Due to Morrisville State\u2019s expanded campus recycling special events and efforts to teach students to recycle, they, along with the University of Albany, SUNY Cobleskill, Orange Community College, and Colgate University were awarded a total of $4,100 in grants. This was announced recently at NYSAR\u2019s fall recycling conference in Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>Projects funded had to involve initiating, improving or expanding reduction, reuse, recycling and composition projects on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Morrisville State has already taken some efforts including opening a new recycling room in Commons 1 residence hall, on\u00a0Oct. 23\u00a0for Campus Sustainability Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hoping this will become standard across campus,\u201d said Shannon Richard, executive director of campus operations for MAC. \u201cThe town is very concerned about recycling too and is hoping that any awareness we can offer will help educate off-campus students as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard says she is hoping to develop a strategy for tackling recycling on campus and to offer suggestions to other campuses looking to start a recycling program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mollie Carter, Public Relations Intern (Morrisville, NY \u2013 Dec. 6, 2013) Morrisville State is one of several schools to receive funding from the first-ever College Council Grant Program conducted by the New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling (NYSAR3). Due to Morrisville State\u2019s expanded campus recycling special events and efforts to teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}