Tara Pike

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UNLV Sustainability Coordinator/Recycling Manager
Expertise: Recycling, Sustainability, Environment

Biography

Tara Pike, sustainability coordinator and manager of the UNLV Recycling Program, is an expert on waste reduction, recycling, and resource management on campus.

Since joining UNLV in the 1990s as an environmental studies undergraduate, Pike has championed green living. She founded the Rebel Recycling Program in 1995, and has led efforts that increase environmental awareness at UNLV and throughout Southern Nevada. Since 2003, Pike's program has recycled more than 5,600 tons of material on campus.

Pike also serves as Vice President of Campus Race to Zero Waste, a partnership with the National Wildlife Federation that teaches universities how to reduce or eliminate waste.

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How and what do you recycle in Southern Nevada? We'll tell you
K.N.P.R. News
Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, the EPA estimates that waste in the U.S. increases by more than 25%, or by about 1 million tons. That’s 2 billion pounds of garbage.
‘There’s no Planet B’: UNLV first Nevada university to launch climate change plan
Las Vegas Review Journal
UNLV became the first school in the Nevada System of Higher Education to launch a plan to address climate change, unveiling it at a kickoff event on Friday afternoon. Known as the Rebel Climate Action Plan (CAP), the document is a roadmap for how the school will meet its goal of slashing its greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2030 and becoming net zero by the university’s 100th birthday in 2057. Net zero refers to a state where the carbon dioxide UNLV is putting into the atmosphere is offset with the amount removed, thus not contributing to warming.
Nevadans only recycle one out of every four eligible items. Experts say increasing that is simple
K.N.P.R. News
For more than 30 years, Nevada has asked households to recycle 25 percent of qualified materials — plastics, paper, aluminum and more. It’s not a mandate. And in 2021, Nevada’s division of environmental protection said 24 percent had been reached. That means just one out of four recyclable materials are thrown into the light-blue recycle bin in Southern Nevada. Part of the reason it might not be more is that people still have questions over what is and what isn’t recyclable.
Recycling services available for those living in apartment complexes, condos in Las Vegas valley
K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now
Many if not all apartments or condos do not offer recycling services. When Las Vegas valley resident Jennifer Turchin wants to recycle she drives to the north part of town to drop off recycling items.
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Southern Nevada Christmas Tree Recycling Program Begins Dec. 26
UNLV logo on Christmas tree snowflake ornament adorning colorful tree
Business and Community | December 20, 2024

For nearly 30 years, UNLV and community organizations have supported free program to turn Christmas trees into mulch; more than 11,700 trees recycled in 2023.
 

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Undergrad researcher Benjamin Sabir helps H. Jeremy Cho examine an atmospheric water harvesting device. (Jeff Scheid/UNLV)
Campus News | October 1, 2024

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Campus News | May 1, 2024

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