One Saturday morning before a football game, I decided to volunteer for the Zero Waste Tailgate. The Zero Waste team takes the initiative to go around to the tailgating groups and offer them recycling bins or bags. The volunteers distributed these items, educated the tailgaters on what was to be recycled and what wasn’t, and also informed them of the process of the Zero Waste system. As a student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, it felt very rewarding to take part in a program that collected such vast amounts of recycling that would have otherwise been sent to the landfill. For me, it was a way to grasp this immense environmental issue I had learned about in class, and actually take action to do something about the problem.