ReUSE

When walking through Sproul Plaza, you may come across a vibrant array of student organizations selling food, promoting their clothing items or hosting thrift swaps. 

Through the collaboration of environmentalists, researchers and student initiatives, the challenge of campus waste can be solved with innovating ways of reuse and recycling. 

In the scope of environmentalism, there are many creative alternatives to trashing your household goods. Sustainable modes of reusing not just clothing, but also items have sprung up as ways to repurpose materials without engaging the process of recycling and large industries of redistribution.

One thing my dad always uses as a golden example of product reuse is the glass jar. Here are three ways to use glass jars.

In order for UC Berkeley to reach our zero waste by 2020 goals, these are the bold next steps our students and administration must also adopt. In fact, as an institution of higher learning and the No. 1 public university in the world, we should now go even further in leading the way to eliminating the use of single-use disposable plastics and other landfill items on campus.

UC Berkeley Facilities Services is hosting “Zero Waste October,” a series of events aimed at “celebrating, highlighting and achieving zero waste,” according to its website.

Impermanence, also known as “anica” in Buddhism, has been the greatest enemy to the modern human mind since its development 40,000 years ago. And if you would like to embark on this game, I would highly recommend that you continue reading this important piece to find “maximalism.”

As every good hipster knows by now, American Apparel is disappearing — the whole company has been acquired, and the Telegraph Avenue location will shut its doors in April