Issue date: 4/22/08 Section: Campus

Usable electronics will be donated to underprivileged areas. Otherwise, the machines will be recycled for parts, Palmer said.

Sports Pavilion and Aquatics Center will sponsor an athletic shoe collection at the pile. Shoes get turned into padding for playgrounds in underprivileged areas, Palmer said. Norris Bookstore will also contribute with a sale of "green" books.

The Evanston Ecology Center and the Illinois Student Environmental Coalition will have information booths at the event, and the Jewish Theatre Ensemble will perform "The Lorax," Dr. Seuss's ecologically-conscious story, at 1:15 p.m., Schiller said.

"This is the first time that all the environmental groups on campus and the administration has really been on board (with) one unifying program," he said. "For Earth Day this year, we wanted to make the use of trash a big theme to change people's perspectives on what happens when they throw things away."

Schiller said he hopes the project will have a lasting impact on students.

"Individual behaviors, when they're multiplied over a whole campus, turn into something really big," he said. "If we change our behaviors on a smaller level, we're able to make an equally big impact."



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