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The numbers are in from Michigan Tech’s first ever Waste Reduction Drive, and they’re not too shabby.
On June 27th, the drive through collection event was held in the parking lot near the Gates Tennis Center.
The numbers of everything that didn’t wind up in a landfill are as follows, 18,573 plastic bottle caps, 11,585 plastic bags 11,444 batteries, 3,474 foil lined wrappers, along with 1,092 egg cartons, which were given to local farmers were collected.
Michigan Tech plans on making the event annual, and is considering adding more things to be collected.
