BungoBox on CBS Radio
Aired on CBS Radio Aug. 19, 2011
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Rollins College student Kristin Urban recently moved into her eco-friendly dorm in a non-conventional way; she’s did it without using cardboard boxes. When she moved into the Mowbray House, a fully sustainable “living lab” located on the Rollins College campus, she used plastic, recycled moving bins called BungoBoxes and, in turn, creating a zero-waste move.
Consider this: Only about half of the cardboard that Americans discard actually gets recycled, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. One BungoBox will replace a minimum of 250 average cardboard boxes during its lifetime -- the equivalent of 1,575 gallons of water, four large trees, 923 KW hours of energy and 40 gallons of gas.
“Everything the students do at the Mowbray House is meant to be an example; they take their roles as environmental ambassadors seriously,” says Ann Francis, adviser to Eco-Rollins and manager of the student-run sustainability program. “Since the average American moves more than 16 times in a lifetime, all the bubble wrap, Styrofoam peanuts and boxes really add up. Using an alternative to cardboard just makes sense.”
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