The fall semester rush is beginning to wind down, just as trash and litter on campus is beginning to pick up.
Graeme Crothall & Associates (GCA) Service Group is the contracted cleaning company responsible for keeping Sinclair’s campus at its best.
Adrienne Dates, the first shift supervisor of GCA, said she believes campus is pretty clean, but students can do better at throwing their trash away.
After working for GCA for four years, come January, Dates said the first few weeks of the new school year is always the worst.
“We have even more students here now than we’ve had in the past couple years,” Dates said. “So the first two weeks of class
I thought were going to be very hectic, but they turned out to be very calm.”
Dates said graffiti has also been a recurring problem on campus.
“We chase graffiti a whole lot. Around this time when all the students come back, they’re running around in the bathrooms putting up the abortion things and we have to take the graffiti remover and clean it off… They write everywhere; on the bricks, in the elevators,” said Dates.
Kevin Jones is a current student who also works as second shift supervisor with GCA. He said that trash on campus isn’t a huge problem, but it can be better.
“I’m neutral, I can say, because I know how it is to live the student life when you’re on the go constantly,” Jones said. “You always have something going on. Then I can understand the working life aspect of it. It’s like ‘ugh, I have to clean up after someone else’ but it is what it is.”
There are steps that students can take to keep campus cleaner such as cleaning up behind oneself, picking up wayward trash, and making sure lunch trays, trash and recyclables make it to the proper receptacle.
“I know its busy being a student because I am a student myself. so
I understand, but if you could be a little more mindful of what you do, you know, where you lay your trash and different things. It doesn’t hurt if you’re walking into a building just to drop trash in the trashcan,” said Jones.