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5/4/05

RE-USE INITIATIVE HELPS LOCAL CHARITIES, KEEPS SLU 'GREEN'

CANTON – Call it "Clean Sweep - the Collegiate Edition." But St. Lawrence 
University's Re-Use Initiative is more than a way for students to get rid 
of items as they prepare to leave campus following final exams. It's also 
a way to help some local charitable organizations and have a "greener" campus.
	With cooperation from the University's facilities operations (they're picking 
up any associated costs in this pilot year of the program), students have set 
up a trailer on campus, where items including clothing, furniture and small 
appliances may be dropped off as students clean out their residence halls at the 
end of the academic year. Items needed by area charities and community organizations 
(Canton Neighborhood Center, Church and Community Program and Renewal House) will 
be donated, and what's left will be sold in the fall, at a "Re-Use Fair." Students 
on a budget will be able to buy those items, and money made from those sales 
will help fund next spring's initiative.
	The program proposal, put together by students and led by Anna N. Larson '05, 
of Bedford, Massachusetts, states, "The Re-Use Initiative is a program designed 
to eliminate the excessive amount of reusable items St. Lawrence currently places 
in landfills at the end of each academic year. It is designed to contribute to both 
the St. Lawrence campus and Canton community. Our hope is to form a collaborative 
effort to place reusable items where there is need in the local community."

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