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08.18.2009 11:48 am

“Zero waste” picnics and aluminum water bottles greet incoming freshman at college campuses

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As incoming freshman descend on college campuses this week, some of them will dine at a “zero waste” picnic and others will be handed aluminum water bottles — to encourage them not to use plastic ones.

Those are two of the…

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05.15.2009 2:30 pm

WashU temporarily lifts bottled water ban for graduation day

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you saw bottles of water being handed out at Washington University’s graduation this morning, your eyes were not deceiving you. While the school does indeed have a ban on bottled water sales and distribution on campus, it temporarily lifted the…

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10.22.2008 4:04 pm

First tray-less cafeterias at SLU — now no more bottled water at WashU?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When I was on SLU’s campus recently, I noticed that the cafeterias there had gotten rid of trays. It’s one of the more quirky methods that colleges nationwide are using to go green. This way, schools don’t have to waste…

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