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“Get Caught Green Handed” is an initiative of the Sustainability Center with help from College Activities and the Green Guy. Students at SWIC were caught doing something eco-friendly at one of the campuses weekly during the fall 2012 semester. They received great prizes including an organic t-shirt, a reusable water bottle or reusable grocery bags. The Green Guy assisted WITS at the Red Bud Campus Recycle It All Fest with the electronic recycling pick-up.

Web Innovations and Technology Services (WITS)

WITS will be offering free electronics recycling at the Belleville Campus, M5 parking lot, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the following dates in 2013:

  • Feb. 10 (weather permitting)
  • March 10
  • April 14
  • No Pick up in May (Mother's Day)
  • June 9
  • July 14
  • Aug. 11
  • Sept. 8
  • Oct. 13
  • Nov. 10

Members of the community are invited to bring in their old computers, televisions, VCRs, DVD players, home electronics, washers, dryers, refrigerators and more. WITS, a nonprofit organization, asks for donations for certain larger items to help cover costs of appropriate recycling.

Questions?

Please call WITS at 314-382-1650 for questions related to this program, or visit witsinc.org.

Other GREEN Activities at SWIC!

One Planet Program (part of the MBS Textbook Exchange)

Donated textbooks dropped in One Planet cardboard boxes on all three SWIC campuses will be sold online or shredded into pulp and resold to paper mills. Profits benefit Reading Is Fundamental, a nonprofit literacy organization.