Milledgeville’s Earth Day festivities

Shaw

Coggin Staff Writer

Earth Day was Saturday, April 20, and the city of Milledgeville had a few activities to do their part in taking care of the environment.

One of these events was a clean-up day hosted by Central State Hospital and Keep Milledgeville-Baldwin Beautiful. The event lasted from 9 a.m. to noon and started at the historic Powell Building.

A few other events that were hosted include the Eve Puckett Giving Tree Planting, which took place on West Campus Drive; the Huley Park cleanup; Earth Fest, which was on the GC front campus; Lake Sinclair Clean-up Day; as well as a Greenway Clean-up Day. All of these events were successful, with many GC students and community members showing up to do their part in helping the environment.

Doing your part is not just something people do for one day, though, as many GC students implement things in their day-to-day lives that help out the environment.

Gus Faulkner, a ju- nior exercise science major, lives in a house near campus, and though his housing does not provide any recycling system, he and his roommates take it upon themselves to have a bin that they use to recycle some of their trash.

“I have a recycling bin that we use at my house,” Faulkner said. “I also reuse plates, bowls and cups.”

Though Faulkner does put in effort to do his part, he said that there are areas where he feels like he could do better.

“I think I could use less single-use plastics and paper prod- ucts and things like that,” Faulkner said.

Bryan Schwartz, a freshman MIS major, lives in Adams Hall and uses the school-provided recycling bins regularly. He has also implemented protecting the environment into his hobbies and pastimes as well.

“My mom and I like to plant trees,” Schwartz said. “Occasionally, we’ll plant flowers as well.”

Recently, students have seen the effects on the local environment that graduation traditions and parties held near campus can have.

“I was outside, tak- plastic cups on the side of the street, so I feel like we can do better.”

Campbell Porter, a sophomore marketing major, lives in an apartment complex near campus.

“I use plastic plates and silverware a lot, just out of pure laziness, with no regard for what it does for the Earth,” Porter said. “That’s something

Porter also said that he