The Daily Bulletin Archive

The campus Beautification Committee is seeking volunteers to spend some free time outdoors, cleaning up unsightly debris around buildings where they work, exercise, study, or reside. Trash bags and gloves are available from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. weekdays at the Clinton Center, Customer Service, where individuals can sign up for the program. Collected litter can be placed in any outdoor trash receptacle.

This effort directly supports all-college events, including Open House, Commencement, and fundraising events such as the annual Foundation Scholarship Gala. A litter-free campus helps showcase and market our institution to the visiting public and inspires everyone to help preserve our cherished green spaces.

Your efforts also help preserve an endangered waterway—the Scajaquada Creek. Litter, debris, and decomposition byproducts can be carried by storm runoff into the campus storm drainage system and Scajaquada Creek, hampering other noble efforts to reestablish the creek as a freshwater habitat for migratory birds and other native wildlife.

Studies by the U.S. EPA have found that storm runoff from urbanized areas can adversely affect water quality and aquatic and wildlife in our waterways. As required by the U.S. Clean Water Act, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issues storm sewer system permits to entities within urbanized areas, including SUNY Buffalo State, with requirements to reduce storm water pollution. Buffalo State maintains a litter prevention and control policy in accordance with the conditions of this storm sewer system permit and storm water pollution control regulations. This policy, which includes expectations and measures for preventing and controlling litter, encourages “good samaritan” volunteer efforts to clean up litter and debris.