CALLIE GERBER, Evergreen reporter
• September 27, 2021
Waste Management at WSU is working to make the campus more environmentally friendly through increased recycling efforts and other initiatives.
Waste Management’s goal is to limit what goes in the...
The Moscow Food Co-op is offering reusable plastic EcoToGo containers as part of the store’s environmentally friendly efforts.
The boxes are nine by nine inches and made out of BPA-free...
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen news editor
• October 19, 2020
Two WSU professors invented a process to recycle drywall into blocks, which can then be used for construction projects.
Drywall is a common building material made from the mineral gypsum, also known...
JENAE LAXSON, Evergreen roots editor
• October 13, 2020
The ASWSU Environmental Sustainability Alliance and TEDxWSU Countdown held an event featuring WSU faculty to discuss how climate change is impacting people locally and worldwide.
There are areas of...
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
• October 11, 2020
WSU removed recycling bins from several student housing complexes without telling residents, claimed one graduate resident at Yakama Village, who raised concerns that the WSU administration no longer cares...
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen news editor
• September 27, 2020
A WSU lab is the first university lab in the country to successfully test liquid hydrogen as a green fuel source for unmanned aerial vehicles.
WSU researchers collaborated with Mississippi State University...
Whitman County’s solid waste drop-off locations now allow customers to pay with credit and debit cards, according to the waste station’s director.
David Nails, solid waste and recycling director...
Teachers and staff at the Pullman School District implement sustainability education through planting trees and creating owl boxes. This effort led to the district being named one of the 2020 U.S. Department...
CODY SCHOELER, Evergreen reporter
• January 17, 2020
WSU Waste Management has recently made changes to the recyclable materials that they are accepting. They are only accepting clean metal cans and specific plastic bottles.
Nathan Kite, WSU Waste...
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
• November 13, 2019
KOOSKIA, ID — Irene Finehout dug through a plastic crate, her fuzzy green hat shielding her from a slight drizzle. In the parking lot of this small town’s volunteer EMT center off the highway, Finehout...
WSU waste management invested about $4,000 in new recycling signs around campus to specify what items can be recycled or not in an effort to decrease contamination.
Rick Finch, manager of WSU waste...
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
• September 8, 2019
Alice Ma has used the same eating utensils since 2011.
The WSU dietitian unsheaths a bamboo fork, a spoon, a pair of chopsticks and a knife from the red-and-white vinyl case. It’s the color of her...
![“This [climate change] is an emergency, we’re not going to vote-with-our-dollar our way out of this,” Michelle Decourcey, clinical pathologist at WSU’s teaching veterinary hospital, said.](https://dailyevergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/web-37-900x600.jpg)
