Chelsea Frisbie (left), a SUNY Oswego junior broadcasting and mass communication major, speaks about Garbage Pail Kids, a campus recycling education initiative, with junior zoology major Karen Alvarado and junior biology major Sebin Joseph at a recycling station near the Crossroads cafe in Marano Campus Center. Co-founded by Frisbie and the college's sustainability program coordinator, Jamie Adams, the effort stationed volunteers near waste receptacles to clarify recycling guidelines. SUNY Oswego won honorable mention in the first-ever 3R Actions Challenge sponsored by RecycleMania, thanks to more than 700 texts and photos of the project in action sent through myActions.org
Oswego Daily News

College Earns National Honor For Students’ Recycling Campaign

The college earned one of four honorable mentions in the 3R (Reuse-Reduce-Recycle) Actions Challenge for racking up 700 actions in a peer-to-peer recycling education project called Garbage Pail Kids. Among 104 colleges and universities participating in the competition, the champions in four size divisions included University at Albany in the medium-size category.

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