Calvin University Chimes

Recycling at Calvin: Challenges and Student Advocacy

Sarah Sparling, General Assignment Reporter
November 25, 2024

Recycling on Calvin University's campus has been a challenge for years, and students are speaking up about the lack of accessible bins. Maia Peterson, a freshman environmental science major, expressed...

Recycling to return to campus by early December

Abigail Ham, Managing Editor
October 23, 2021

Recycling bins will once again be dispersed across campus by early December. COVID-19 restrictions, not staffing reductions, have been the main source of delays in reintroduction of campus-wide recycling,...

New facilities contractors struggle to resume recycling after pause for COVID

Lauren Vanden Bosch, Staff Writer
September 19, 2021

During the pandemic, recycling on campus came to a standstill. National Management Resources Corporation, the company to which Calvin outsourced its facilities management during the summer, is looking...

E-waste poses difficulties to developing nations

Landon Sterk
May 8, 2015

When Apple releases a new iPhone, hundreds of people line up to replace their “old” phone. But for all the hype surrounding the new product, there is hardly any talk about what happens with the old...

Opinion: Stop waiting for ‘real life’ to start

Kate Parsons
March 26, 2015

Sometimes I wonder why I bring reusable bags to Meijer, why I bike to work, recycle cans or turn the shower off while I shampoo my hair. In the face of corporations that inhale fossil fuels, belch out...

Opinion: Skip the plastic

Alicia DeJong
February 13, 2015

It’s a routine you know well: you load your groceries onto the checkout line, pay, grab your purchases, walk away. Done. But look down. What are you carrying your groceries in? Is it one of those white,...