Keep Louisiana Beautiful grant provides enhanced recycling and recycling literacy on Loyola’s campus
New Orleans, La. – Loyola University New Orleans students will soon have more opportunities to recycle on campus and increase their recycling literacy, thanks to a grant from Keep Louisiana Beautiful.
Loyola received over $4,700 from the organization to upgrade existing recycling stations around campus, which continues the efforts from last year’s grant to increase recycling and divert waste from landfills through consistent, visible and clearly labeled recycling stations and by adding a glass recycling hub behind Biever Hall. Additionally, the grant provides support for a student Green Team to increase the community’s literacy about recycling on campus.
“We’re excited to bring even more recycling opportunities to campus. Our efforts from last year have received positive response and the desire from all sectors of the campus community for more campus infrastructure dedicated to diverting and reducing waste going to landfills,” said Mark Tobler, coordinator for the Keep Loyola Beautiful program and environment program research associate. “Our eventual goal is to expand and upgrade even more receptacles and hubs across campus moving Loyola towards a more sustainable campus, and we’re grateful to Keep Louisiana Beautiful for supporting this important initiative at Loyola.”
Loyola is a Keep Louisiana Beautiful University Affiliate. It is one of 12 Louisiana institutions, along with hundreds of other national and community affiliates, recognized for its dedication to preserving the beauty of Louisiana. Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s University Sustainability Coalition meets throughout the academic year to share ideas, successes, and challenges related to campus sustainability.
Learn more about the program here.
About Keep Louisiana Beautiful
Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s mission is to promote personal, corporate, and community responsibility for a clean and beautiful Louisiana. Through our programs and statewide network of affiliates and partners, we provide tools and resources to prevent litter, reduce waste, increase recycling, and beautify spaces. Keep Louisiana Beautiful is a non-profit organization dedicated to achieving a cleaner, greener Louisiana through litter reduction and beautification initiatives. To get involved, please visit keeplouisianabeautiful.org.
About Loyola University New Orleans:
Loyola University New Orleans is a Catholic, Jesuit university, located in the heart of the
picturesque Uptown neighborhood in New Orleans. For more than 100 years, Loyola has helped shape the lives of our students, as well as the history of our city and the world, through educating men and women in the Jesuit traditions of academic excellence and service to others. Our more than 50,000 living graduates serve as catalysts for change in their communities around the world as they exemplify the comprehensive, values-laden education they received at Loyola.