Tag: recycling

• Sustainable actions at home help offset Amazon fires

  By Reghan ThibodeauxPulse Staff Reporter More than 74,000 fires have been raging through the Amazon rainforest in Brazil since January, releasing carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into the atmosphere, which could speed up climate change. When trees are cut and burned, the carbon they are storing is released into the atmosphere and the rainforest’s capacity…

  reghanthibodeaux

  17 Oct 2019

  Palo Alto College

  Amazon rainforest, Forest fires, Palo Alto College’s recycling program, recycling, Reduce, refuse, Reuse

• PAC’s recycling #1 in district

  

  By Chelsea Victoria Moran Pulse Staff Reporter Throwing used materials into the garbage may not seem like a big deal but, when 80 percent of what we’re trashing is recyclable, it’s a major issue. From January through December 2016, Palo Alto College had the highest recycling rate amongst the Alamo Colleges. PAC managed to rescue…

  chelseav78

  9 Mar 2017

  Palo Alto College

  PAC, recycling

• PAC raises recycling awareness with America Recycles Day

  By Kendra Robinson Pulse Staff Reporter On average, every American will typically produce up to 4.5 pounds of trash each day. Of that amount, nearly 3.37 pounds could be recycled. However, only 1.35 pounds is recycled. On Nov. 13, Palo Alto’s very own COMM 2330: Intro to Public Relations students helped put together an entire…

  New Mommy Blogger🍼

  4 Dec 2014

  Palo Alto College

  “Recycle, America Recycles Day, COMM 2330: Intro to Public Relations, Conjunto, Dr. Denise Barkis Richter, ecological footprint, Goodwill Industries, Goodwill of San Antonio, Jazz, Joseph Losoya, Kellie Alcozer, Mariachi, Palo Alto College’s recycling program, Ray Ellison Family Center, Recycle” as Versace, recycled, Recycled Fashion Show, recycling, Sustainability, Table of Friendship, trash