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  • Volunteers needed for third Repair Café

    Volunteers needed for third Repair Café

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    BY NATALIA NAHON After two years of success, the Repair Café is coming back to Trafalgar Campus. Wai Chu Cheng, Sheridan’s Sustainability Coordinator, is asking for skilled people to help fix household items. Repair Café is an event where people bring broken items- anything from computers to small appliances- and volunteers repair them for free.…

  • Co-op students help nurture college’s green efforts

    Co-op students help nurture college’s green efforts

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    STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID The repair café, the sorting bins, the green printers and reducing paper cup waste are just some of the projects taken by Sheridan’s office of sustainability. Aware of being characterized as preachy and overbearing by students, the office has hired two co-op students to be its representatives. Michael McMillan learned about…

  • Putting a lid on paper cup waste

    Putting a lid on paper cup waste

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    STORY BY PALWASHA TEMOR If there’s one thing students and staff turn to in order to get them through the day, it’s a cup of coffee — and that produces a mountain of paper cups at Sheridan. The college’s Office for Sustainability focuses on two areas in helping scale that mountain, according to Wai Chu…

  • Sheridan takes out the trash

    Sheridan takes out the trash

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    VIDEO BY ROBERT SGOTTO The office of sustainability spearheads Sheridan’s green plan by reducing waste to landfills. On Oct. 16, volunteers and co-op students helped sort and audit Sheridan’s waste, the first time since April of last year. There’s a lot of confusion on what waste goes where, and coffee cups seems to end up…