STU NOW

We create a lot of waste in our daily lives. Click on our backgrounders below to learn about campus waste and about our plastic, paper and clothing consumption.

STU NOW: Features

The limits of recycling

About 14 per cent of what people in Fredericton recycle end up getting thrown out. Much of the recycled waste in Canada gets shipped over seas.

STU still isn't measuring campus waste

When St. Thomas conducted an environmental audit in 2010-2011, campus waste was not measured. It's still not being measured today, but we know we are producing lots of it.

The dirty truth about new clothes

Clothes can’t be easily recycled or composted, and the pricing and production models of today’s stores encourage buying over repairing or repurposing.

The truth about plastic

Since plastic’s invention, we’ve produced 9.2 billion tonnes of it and over two-third of that has become waste. It’s either tossed in the garbage, on the side of the road or in our oceans.