Due to a change in recycling procedures by Skyline’s collection agent, San Bruno Garbage Co., Inc., students may now put any type of recyclable in any recycling bin on campus.While the previous strategy made things easier for the San Bruno Garbage Co., Inc., the new procedure seems to make it much easier for campus custodians at Skyline. Since all recyclables are put into one type of container, all custodians have to do is take one type of container up to the area around building 14, and dump it for weekly collection. San Bruno Garbage Co., Inc. is also doing this, at no extra expense to the school, in order to get more recyclables and increase competition with other garbage companies.This program hopes to increase the amount of recycling by making the receptacles easier to find. Thus, students won’t be “walking around with a piece of paper getting frustrated and throwing it in the trash” according to Richard Inokuchi, Skyline College’s Facilities Manager.With this new procedure Inokuchi expects Skyline to exceed the state waste diversion percentages, the amount of recycling put out compared to garbage. The current rate for California is 50% according to the Integrated Waste Management board’s website (http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/) Though the rate for California is at 50% Inokuchi said that while he has been here Skyline’s rate has been around 65%. With this new procedure he expects it to be easier for Skyline to meet and exceed these figures.But even through all of these changes the recycling bins around the campus haven’t changed. They still feature the tops for putting both bottles and pieces of paper in. The reason for this is so that Skyline students won’t mistake these containers for garbage ones, but student Jamie Weinstock thinks “the idea is brilliant, but the containers need to be more clearly labeled”.If even a single piece of garbage is disastrous for a recycling container, the container becomes “contaminated” and doesn’t count towards the state diversion percentage. Because of this wouldn’t it be more prudent to label the containers better?However, the main point of all of this is not to just meet some arbitrary state quota, in the words of Richard Inokuchi “The main thing is to get as much recycling out as possible”. This all contributes to making our campus cleaner.