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Millersville student nominated for Campus Sustainability Champion Award

Each year the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) recognizes universities across Pennsylvania with the Campus Sustainability Champion Award. This year, Millersville’s own Stephanie Bradley, a junior majoring in social work, has been nominated for the prestigious award to be announced at the PERC 2014 Fall Conference, held on Nov. 12 at Penn State’s University Park campus in State College. One of the programs at Millersville that Bradley helps to implement is TerraCycle.

Liz Swafford: Seven unexpected things to recycle

If you’ve been recycling through the city of Dalton curbside recycling program or at one of the four convenience centers in Whitfield County you know that our community recycles the basics: plastic bottles and jugs, paper, aluminum cans, bi-metal cans, glass bottles and jars. With a full recycling bin every week you may be wondering if there’s anything else you could be recycling to take your environmentally friendly habit to the next level. Here are some items that you may not be currently be recycling but are available either locally or through a mail in program.