Center for Sustainability Turns Trash to Treasure
Center for Sustainability Turns Trash to Treasure
To celebrate the end of the eight-week national RecycleMania Tournament, the Center for Sustainability is hosting the construction of a
greenhouse using an unlikely building material: 1,500 used 2-liter plastic
bottles will be transformed into a greenhouse throughout the day on Friday,
March 28 at the Russell Union Rotunda.
“The bottle greenhouse is a perfect example of ‘trash to treasure,’” said Lissa Leege, director of the Center for Sustainability. Rather than sitting in a landfill forever, these bottles will live on as a greenhouse and will help to grow young plants for use in the Center for Sustainability’s Afterschool Garden Program.”
With assistance from the Department of Facilities Services and the Center for Sustainability, more than 40 volunteers will work in shifts from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. to accomplish the one-day build. Curious onlookers are encouraged to stop by to lend a hand and check out the progress on Friday.
The bottle greenhouse will be on display on the Pedestrium for the month of April in celebration of No Impact Week (April 13 - 20) and Earth Day. At the end of April, the greenhouse will be donated to Keep Bulloch Beautiful for use in the Afterschool Garden Program.
If you are interested volunteering, contact the Center for Sustainability at cfs@georgiasouthern.edu.
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