(Each Monday during the academic year, I feature a "Campus Highlight": a unique, interesting, and noteworthy student organization, program, or initiative that demonstrates the amazing things college students do each and every day across the country.)
For this week's Campus Highlight, I'm featuring the Vermont Student Environmental Program (VSTEP) at the University of Vermont. Founded in 1988 and currently operating as a non-profit, private foundation run by students, VSTEP "is an organization of concerned individuals dedicated to coordinating environmental activities on Vermont campuses and throughout the general public." One of their more notable accomplishments has been to end the sale of bottled water on campus, which will go into effect in January of 2013. The university issued a press release that describes in more detail the way(s) VSTEP helped to implement such an important policy change.
As the press release notes, although VSTEP was able to reduce the amount of bottled water that was purchased on the campus, in 2010 alone approximately 235,000 bottles were sold. Congratulations to the students of VSTEP for their efforts in making such a drastic reduction in the amount of waste coming from one campus -- and for showing the rest of the country what solid student leadership looks like!
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