Marguerite Oakey

Sorting aluminum, plastic and cardboard out of landfill bins.

Sorting recycling out of trashcans into proper bins.

Cleaning trash around Neyland Stadium. Sorting recycling and baling it.

Collecting trash around the stadium

Most of the waste is recycling with compost next and the least amount of waste going to landfill. Good opportunity to see how much "trash" doesn't need to go to a landfill.

Volunteering for the zero-waste game day makes you realize how much waste is actually recyclable and compostable. By the end of the game most of the recycling bins were full and the compost bins were mostly full and the trash bins were about a quarter full after being properly separated.

Easy to learn the system. Makes you think more about how much food gets wasted.

Got to learn about why privet is so invasive. Joseph explained how the root system works to allow one plant to keep sprouting in new locations. When removing the privet, I could see what he was talking about when pulling out long lateral roots or pulling a young sprout with a very thick old root.