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First-year political science student Nabila Hersi shares her thoughts about sustainability practices and experience in Waste Watchers. Waste Watchers is a group run by Campus Recycling, whose mission is to engage students and the community in waste reduction at Oregon State University by providing educational programming, meaningful opportunities for action and empowerment of future leaders.

OSU sustainability clubs celebrate Earth Day, aim to help university reach carbon neutral goal

Sukhjot Sal, News Contributor
April 12, 2021

Waste Watchers is just one of the dozens of sustainability clubs at Oregon State University fighting to save the environment.Nabila Hersi, a first-year political science student minoring in sustainability...

Paper Straws

Campus switches to paper straws to reduce waste

Stefanie Gamboa, News Contributor
October 1, 2018

Oregon State University has over 20 restaurants on campus under University Housing and Dining Services and Memorial Union Retail Services. The nine MURFS restaurants alone used 235,000 plastic straws last...

Scrap

Scrap to Sculpture

Hannah Loh, Multimedia Contributor
February 8, 2017

For the past seven years, OSU’s Waste Watchers has gathered discarded reusable materials and created a sculpture to kick off the annual RecycleMania competition.This year, the student group decided to...

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