Green Team collects recyclables on game day
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Tiger Tailgate assistant coordinator Jordan Green tosses a bag full of aluminum cans into the back of a truck Saturday at the Reactor Field lot. After distributing bags early in the afternoon, Tiger Tailgate recycling volunteers made several rounds in parking lots to collect bags until 8 p.m.
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Junior John Gardner radios in to check on the progress of volunteers at various parking lots before giving directions to sophomore Becky Thiele on where to go next. After working all afternoon leading up to the football game against Oklahoma State, Tiger Tailgate volunteers returned to parking lots at 8 a.m. Sunday.
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Sophomore David Teeghman tears off a large trash bag from a roll stored in the back of a Landscape Services golf cart. The larger bags were used in permanent beige recycling bins. Teeghman has written for The Maneater.
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Sustain Mizzou Secretary Christine O'Brien hands a bag to MU graduate Travis Sumner and reviews instructions on what materials can be recycled. Plastic types No. 1 and No. 2 and aluminum and glass containers were all eligible to be recycled in Tiger Tailgate-approved bags.
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Seniors Joel Fecke and Ramin Mehranfar drive a golf cart Saturday near the main entrance to Faurot Field on their way to auxiliary parking lots to collect bags of recyclables. The pick-up process went slowly because the golf carts were forced to maneuver around both pedestrians and other cars in the packed lots.