Initiating Action

For my initiating action project, I will write a letter to dinning services urging them to charge $.50 per Styrofoam container in order to discourage unnecessary use of styrofoam. I will write about the malfeasant effects of styrofoam on the enviromnent and Virginia Tech's massive ecological footprint due to the excessive use of styrofoam products from dinning halls. I will also point out how students who are eating in the dinning room use styrofoam products despite the small posters that have been put up stating the anti-green effects of styrofoam. Taking action that will directly affect students, in this case their budget, which most students cannot ignore, is the only way to promote a greener campus. I will also suggest large posters or signs be put up in the dinning halls stating this new charge and how it will affect student budgets.