This week’s Quick Tip!

Two percent of the world’s supply of oil is turned into water bottles!

As few as 20 percent of water bottles are recycled, and by law they cannot be turned into more water bottles as they are considered contaminated by human contact. Try drinking tap water – out of a reusable bottle or pitcher. Buy a water filter if it makes you feel better.

Do you know what’s in bottled water?
The contents of at least 40% are just municipal tap water, which may or may not be treated or filtered. The exact source of the water or its chemical content is not required to be placed on the label!

Do you know who checks the quality of bottled water?
The EPA verifies the quality of tap water supplied by municipalities across America. The FDA oversees bottled water, but only from out-of-state sources. The FDA requires bottlers to test for contaminants, but considers bottled water at lower risk than other products, and inspects water-bottling plants less frequently than others. The FDA only inspects 1 in 1 million bottles of water sold in stores. Which do you think is safest to drink, bottled water or tap water?

Fisher Goes Green

Thank you for attending and contributing to our Recycling Drive and Sustainability Fair on March 14,2013. There are more details on the Activities page.

Welcome to Fisher Goes Green, THE place to find out more about the environment, and what St. John Fisher College is doing to keep our campus – and our planet – clean, safe, and healthy. This site is maintained by the Recycling and Sustainability Committee.

Monroe County law requires that everyone recycle certain materials, but we are about more than just recycling. We want to make sure that the Fisher Community practices the three R's.

REDUCE: Buy less, and buy items with less packaging
REUSE: Give away clothes, household items, electronics to your friends or charity
RECYCLE: Everything that can be recycled should be, including paper products, bottles, and cans

Why Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle? Because we must all practice Sustainability:

The idea that we can provide for today's needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

Our Committee has sponsored an Earth Day cleanup and planting projects for many years, and we want to spread our work even farther. We participated in the nationwide competition called RecycleMania for two years; we held our first Sustainability Fair in 2009, bringing to campus committed individuals from such varied groups as the Sierra Club, Genesee Land Trust, Monroe County Water Education Collaborative, and GrowMonroe. We also host an annual electronics recycling collection with Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery.

You may contact members of the Recycling and Sustainability Committee via email at: recycle@sjfc.edu with questions or comments.

In addition to information about our ongoing Green activities, this site provides informational and educational links to websites to help you learn more about the environment, and what you personally can do to help:

Green Fisher Activities – information on our current and upcoming events
How Do I Go Green? – check out websites to determine your carbon footprint, cancel unwanted mail-order catalogs, and learn more about what you can do
Read Green – check out materials available at Lavery Library to learn more about the environment, recycling, global warming, as well as other interesting information.
Recycling Guidelines gives you up-to-date information on the rules and practices of Fisher’s recycling program.