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Let's Recycle Our Masks! (CSULB)

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Venus C
3 years ago

We should minimize the waste we created.

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Alicia Dukes
3 years ago

This sounds like a good idea :)

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Marcus Donnelly
4 years ago Featured

Finally!! About time someone did something about this trash.

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Elena Kelly
4 years ago Featured

YES PLEASE. Lets get these bins put up before the semester ends.

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Brian Richards
4 years ago Featured

Waste is getting out of control. Count me in.

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Sarah Carter
4 years ago Featured

Good idea! Definitely tired of seeing them everywhere in the parking lot.

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Anonymous
4 years ago

Also mandate washable masks

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Nohemi Juarez Guadalupe
4 years ago

I hope this goes big!!!

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Jessica Okafor
4 years ago Featured

super important since we are all on campus 5 days a week anyway

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Alon Lahav
4 years ago

This is an amazing cause. I would love to see this implemented all across the country and hope that it would come to my college soon as well! As masks take over 400 years to naturally decompose we need to stand up and take initiative or our descendants will continue seeing these masks float all around the world. I have personally seen many masks littering anywhere from the parks to the oceans which can cause havoc to the environment. Although these masks are labeled as single-use, disposable items, they are not single-use, they are not disposable! They can be recovered, remade, and reused multiple times, and I hope this initiative will make that happen at CSULB's campus. It is crazy to see how quickly these masks came into circulation ever since the beginning of the pandemic with little to no regard as to where they go once used. Hopefully, next time I visit CSULB these trashcans will be implemented campuswide and there would be no more mask litter! I volunteer Alon Shafran to be the leading hand in picking up each individual mask all across campus for the sake of keeping Long Beach clean. I know that through his leadership and commitment to the environment we will be able to tackle this massive problem on the micro and macro level, from Long Beach to the entire world! If you are seeing this comment I beg that you too will give a hand in bettering the campus, one mask at a time and hopefully within the next six to seven months we will be able to have a sizable effect on the beautiful campus of CSULB. This project especially resonates with me as it is such a universal problem around our globe and even though we are starting small, this can really expand all across the US, first to all the universities, then other forms of academia such as high schools, and finally to corporate offices and public spaces. Another way to help would be to think of ideas new, innovative ideas of what to do with the collected masks other than sending them to the recycling companies as that

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Avi Nozik
4 years ago

Yay!

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Ora
4 years ago

Important!

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sharon shafran
4 years ago

This is a critical initiative

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David Rowe
4 years ago

Nice

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parker bee
4 years ago

Cool!

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Tyler Ingram
4 years ago Featured

Seen so many masks on the ground lately... this needs to happen asap.

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Nik
4 years ago

Exactly what we need!

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Sebastian Scheib
4 years ago

Lets GO!

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Bill Qiao
4 years ago

Let’s goooo

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Alon Shafran
4 years ago

This is awesome! Hopefully we can make a change :D