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Can beer cans help the homeless? Maybe.
Drew Friedman February 8, 2015
Fourth-year student starts Cans to Cans project to support the Charlottesville community:
Fourth-year College student Jeremy Hurley started the Cans to Cans project last month to increase sustainability on Grounds and support local homeless shelters. His means? Trashbags full of soda and Natural Light. The project involves a three-step process: collecting aluminum waste from fraternity or club houses, taking the waste to Cycle Systems for a compensation rate of 60 cents per pound and using the money to buy canned goods for local food banks and homeless shelters...
Making Greek Life Green with Cans to Cans: An Interview with Jeremy Hurley
Meigan McManus February 8, 2015
Have you heard of Cans to Cans? If you’re at UVa, perhaps you’ve seen some of their Facebook posts or heard about the organization by word of mouth. Even though Cans to Cans is a growing hot topic these days, you may be surprised to find out that it just go launched this semester! Jeremy Hurley and Isabel Stack partnered together in their Global Sustainability class this past Fall and created Cans to Cans. In the Global Sustainability class, students form a team and write a project proposal that bring sustainability activities and initiatives to UVa and the greater Charlottesville community. Cans to Cans accomplishes this by collecting aluminum cans from fraternities and dropping them off at a recycling plant...
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