The Paul and Rosemary Trible Library - Media Center

Recycling/Green efforts

Ink Cartridges

Last year alone, more than 300 million printer cartridges were thrown away and ended up in the landfill. Instead of throwing them away and depleting landfill space, the Trible Library Media Center is proud to assist Tau Delta Phi in their ink cartridge recycling campaign. On behalf of the Tau Delts, the Media Center Service Desk will collect personal ink cartridges. Each ink cartridge recycled will benefit both Christopher Newport University, with new equipment, and the environment. Help us start today! Watch the PowerPoint show for more information.

Recycle Transparencies

"Every year millions of pounds of polyester from transparency film is dumped into landfills. And though transparencies are

classified as Type 1 polyester, which is normally easy to recycle, the recycling of imaged transparencies is so complicated

that local recycling centers won’t accept them. To help reduce this waste–and to take over where those centers leave

off–3M has launched a program of its own to transform 3M Transparency Film into reusable polyester." (information from solutions.3m.com)

To recycle your transparencies, turn the transparencies into the Trible Library Media Center (Room 220) or send them to:

3M Recycle Program

c/o Gemark

99 Stevens Lane

Exeter, PA 18643

NRDC Renewable Energy Nationwide

"Renewable Energy Nationwide was designed to show the enormous potential for new energy systems that reduce global warming emissions, protect critical environmental values and move the United States toward energy independence. Global warming occurs when excess heat-trapping gases accumulate in the earth's atmosphere as a result of fossil-fuel burning and certain land use activities such as deforestation."

Paper, Glass and Plastic

From 1990 to 2005, the amount of waste going to U.S. landfills has decreased by 9 million tons and continues to decrease each year. The Media Center supports the recycling effort at CNU; therefore, a recycling receptacle is available for you paper, plastic and glass.

Power Management

A typical PC is active only 4 hours a day and idle for another 5.5 hours. In an effort to save energy, the Media Center sets each of their computers to the energy saver mode. After 20 minutes of idle activity, the computer will hibernate, which powers down your monitor to about 5 watts of energy and your PC to 2.3 watt.

Play Computer Games to learn how to be a Stakeholder

Stop disasters A disaster simulation game from the UN/ISDR. The core audience for this game is 9-16 year olds, but anyone can play and enjoy the game, and everyone will learn more about preventing disasters. Each scenario takes between 10 and 20 minutes to play, depending on the disaster you are trying to prevent and your skill level. There are five scenarios to play, and each can be played on easy, medium or hard difficulty levels.

Electrocity ElectroCity was developed to increase public awareness – particularly among students – of the basic "common knowledge" needed to discuss energy topics such as: How is energy generated? How much does it cost? How does it affect the environment? That is, the general terms and concepts of the energy industry and the dilemmas that go along with them. ElectroCity is made available online by Genesis Energy, a major generator and retailer of energy in New Zealand.

The Great Green Web Game Test your knowledge of how consumer choices affect the environment. This is a quiz game developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Mainly aimed at North American consumers, but will be of interest to others.