Designed to Improve Society

     Here at UC Davis in the dorms, housing services provide every room with two recycle bins, one for paper and one for cans and bottles. These bins are specifically designed to improve the recycling habits of the UC Davis campus by making it extremely easy to throw away waste. Also, they are crafted to not take up too much space in the small quarters they are used in. Complete with a lip along their insides, the containers have the ability to stack on top of one another to save space. A college student is more inclined to keep the bins in their room if they do not interfere with more important objects in his or her room. Also, the bins have handles to make transporting the recycles easy. One cannot complain about having to change a bag or about his or her inability to move an awkwardly shaped receptacle. In addition, the containers are color coded so one can make associations. One can quickly pick up that blue means paper and green means cans. With time, one's brain does not even have to think about what goes where, but does it naturally. The University makes a smart move when keeping recycling simple and easy by narrowing it down to two bins. While they are asking you to sort your waste, it is not that extensive. Recycling may require just a bit more effort but they make it simple and accessible enough to where even the laziest student has no problem doing so. 

     These bins are aiming to improve UC Davis' "society" by making it extremely simple to recycle and thus reuse our waste instead of throwing it away. By recycling we are wasting less and helping Davis, California, The United States, the Earth, become a "green" planet. Dreams of creating such a place is extremely Utopian in theory but by using these bins and recycling our waste we are one step closer to making that a reality. 

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My personal iPhone, photographer in my dorm room