Pummel the Plastic Campaign Blastoff

Science Club with Honors Physics, Honors Research, Honors Biology students launched the Pummel the Plastic Campaign with a bang, with the ping pong vacuum cannon that they built.

The campaign launch included:

1)  knocking a plastic water bottle into a plastic bottle recycling can using the ping pong vacuum cannon
2) 8 bottle recycling cans with individualized "Recycle because..." signs
3) Recycling relay race (Freshmen vs. Seniors) where teams raced to place various trash items into the correct cans.

The campaign includes:

1) Reduce the use of plastic disposable water bottles, by creating reusable Alverno Nalgene bottles with wide mouth and Alverno logo.

2) Address need for clean, cool water by retrofitting existing cooling fountain to a refill station style fountain, and adding a new wall-mounted refill station.