Ithaca College is making another leap in the direction of walking the green walk and not just talking about it.
With the support of many students we are removing paper towels from the common shared bathrooms in the residence halls starting this fall 2009.
Paper represents over one-third of all municipal waste and roughly 9% of greenhouse gas emissions in this country. With increasing concerns for the destruction of forests, it has become more important to reduce paper waste. Paper towels gobble up not only a lot of carbon, but also consume much of the labor time of our Facilities Services staff to remove them from bathroom facilities.
Facilities Services will continue to provide paper towels in all public bathrooms on campus and will continue to investigate new ways of reducing, reusing and recycling
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