the middle the letters ALU in
facility, which enables us to recycle
lowercase.” (Claridge)
organic waste as fertilizer for campus
landscaping
Recycling
in
The
American
University in Cairo.
instead
of
buying
chemical fertilizer from the outside,”
said Rauch.” (New Trash Stations).
The American University in
By recycling and reusing and
Cairo has helped a lot in sustainable
development. It encourages
recycling
in
every
way
possible and has done its best
to make students and people
recycle. Trash sorting stations
have
been
placed
in
the
highest used areas of the AUC
campus. Each station has six
colored baskets; each color represents
the type or material of trash. “From
left to right, they include cans and
metal
(grey),
bottles
and
glass
(yellow), plastic (blue), food (green),
white (paper) and ‘other trash’ (red).”
(New Trash Stations) It also helped in
waste management and now these
trashes are recycled and then reused
for other uses on AUC campus. “The
food bins can provide raw material
for
AUC’s
on-site
composting
doing all what is in our power to help
in sustainable development, we have
ensured a thriving and fruitful life for
our future generations. And we have
also made sure that we do not
become
extinct.