{"id":660,"date":"2016-01-22T23:32:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=660"},"modified":"2016-01-22T23:32:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T23:32:45","slug":"owu-earns-keep-delaware-county-beautiful-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"OWU Earns &#8220;Keep Delaware County Beautiful&#8221; Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/files\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-662\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/files\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"mmo_award_2015\" width=\"752\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-400x302.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2016\/01\/mmo_award_2015-193x145.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Ohio Wesleyan\u2019s <strong>May Move Out<\/strong> program was honored Dec. 3 with the <strong>2015 Recycling Award<\/strong> from the <em>Keep Delaware County Beautiful Coalition.<\/em> May Move Out is supported with a grant from Delaware Knox Marion Morrow Solid Waste Management District (DKMM SWD). OWU earned the award for helping students to recycle unwanted goods when they left campus for the summer. The \u201cMay Move Out\u201d program recycled about 9.5 tons (19,000 pounds) of materials, benefiting Goodwill Industries and keeping reusable items out of area landfills.<\/p>\n<p>OWU&#8217;s May Move Out effort was initiated\u00a0by students and continues to engage dozens of student volunteers. Information on the first few years of the program is <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=260\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Keep Delaware County Beautiful coalition, led by the Delaware General Health District, provides recycling and litter prevention programs and environmental education activities to residents and businesses in Delaware County.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the May Move Out can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/maymoveout.owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Press Release <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/news-media\/details\/owu-earns-keep-delaware-county-beautiful-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan\u2019s May Move Out program was honored Dec. 3 with the 2015 Recycling Award from the Keep Delaware County Beautiful Coalition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-campus-life","category-recycling-reuse"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}