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Athens-Clarke County
Students Spread Sustainability through EcoReps
With more than 6,200 first-year students enrolled in 2025, the University of Georgia’s growing freshman class presents both excitement and sustainability challenges. The Eco-reps program is using that growth as an opportunity to educate students on environmentally friendly habits. Sadie Eubanks, a second-year EcoRep, joined the program her freshman year…
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Environment
New CIRT Technology in Terry College of Business Makes Recycling Easier
CIRT, which stands for Can I Recycle This, is a women-owned business that aims to promote the use of more sustainable packaging and willingness to recycle by making recycling information more accessible to manufacturers and consumers. CIRT technology has been implemented across UGA’s campus and was most recently added to…
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In-Depth
Student Organization Works with UGA, Athens Community to Reduce Plastic Waste
Bag the Bag is a student-run organization at the University of Georgia that works with the Athens community to promote sustainable practices. One way that Bag the Bag connects with the Athens area is through community clean-ups and helping businesses with handling their old plastic bags. On the University of…
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Environment
Zero Waste Athletics at Georgia Soccer Score Goal
Looking at concessions alone, sporting events produce a considerable amount of waste. Denise Plemmons, the waste reduction coordinator for the Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division, said the landfill typically receives an additional 35-40 tons of landfill waste after a University of Georgia home football game. According to the University of Georgia…
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Copenhagen
Danish Ceramics: A New Realm for Sustainability
Irene Byon, a tourist customer at a local design studio in Copenhagen, Denmark, walks through the aisles of ceramics, enraptured by the colors and textures around her. “I like that everything’s handmade and has unique designs to it,” Byon said. Like Byon, many people are appreciative of the craftsmanship and…
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen’s Secondhand Market Gives New Life to Old Stuff
Clemence Plantier is a fashionable French student clad in pinstripe trousers, chunky loafers and a silk scarf. She is a new member of “Free Your Stuff Copenhagen,” a Facebook group of close to 100,000 members dedicated to giving and taking furniture, clothes, appliances and plants — for free. Plantier, a…
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Athens-Clarke County
One Man’s Trash: Athens Junk Removal Service Gives Back to Community
The term “junk removal” leaves little to the imagination. Junk haulers clean out homes, businesses and commercial properties, loading up whatever items or materials the customer no longer has a use for, and take it all to the landfill. Most services throw everything in altogether, not sorting recyclables or…
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Copenhagen
With Help from Government, Nonprofits, Copenhagen Residents Make City More Sustainable
Residents of Copenhagen, Denmark have watched their city transform in the last five decades to become one of the greenest in the world. With plans to become carbon neutral by 2025, biking infrastructure all over the city and an annual average of 0.0 exposure to indoor air pollution, which is…
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Athens-Clarke County
How Local Trash Disposal Affects Climate Change
Approximately 300 tons of material is disposed of in the Athens-Clarke County Landfill daily. The average dump truck holds 12 to 14 tons of waste, so approximately 23 dump truck loads of garbage are dumped into the 289-acre landfill per day. Yet, not all of it should be garbage. “About…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens Takes ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ To New Level
If you assume your trash today gets collected and sent off to one of the “dumps” you see in cartoons, you’re sadly mistaken. Dumps haven’t existed since the 1970s; rather, the increasing amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Americans create gets sent to landfills where local governments like Athens are…