Student’s zero waste column featured in Sunday Press-Gazette

UW-Green Bay senior Robyn Nielsen, an Environmental Policy and Planning and Environmental Science student who recently completed an internship with Brown County’s Waste Stream Committee, wrote a column on the zero waste philosophy for Sunday’s (Sept. 22) Green Bay Press-Gazette. In it, Nielsen — an April Posters in the Rotunda participant — outlines the economic and environmental benefits of zero waste, detailing current procedures and future possibilities for how we dispose of organic materials. “The best way for all of us to keep items out of the landfill, though,” Nielsen writes, “is not to think about the items we throw away as ‘waste.’ Just because an item is no longer useful to one individual, it does not mean it is completely useless.” Good column, here.