A green wave of recycling swept over campus following the football game against Tulane this weekend.Volunteer LSU hosted its annual “Fall into Service” event early Sunday morning.Volunteers from six student groups swept across various parts of campus and inside the stadium, separating recyclable material from non-recyclable materials.Chynsia Jenkins, event organizer and psychology junior, said only 68 volunteers out of 109 people who signed up for the event showed up.Jenkins speculated Halloween combined with LSU football probably was the cause of the less than expected turnout.Fewer volunteers came than expected, but Jenkins said the cleanup was done far earlier than expected because there wasn’t as much trash as a typical game day.”I wanted to see how much trash was out there first hand,” said Spencer McNab, landscape architecture graduate student. “There wasn’t as much trash as most games.”Jenkins said the amount of material collected and recycled at the event was unavailable at the time.Mallory Trochesset, Volunteer LSU advisor and assistant director for Campus Life, said Fall into Service is Volunteer LSU’s biggest fall event.”I wanted to make students aware of recycling efforts and teach them about what goes into gameday cleanup,” Jenkins said. “So next time they go tailgate, some students won’t be as careless with their trash.”Volunteer LSU also sent students inside Tiger Stadium to assist with ongoing recycling efforts.Started by an architecture student, Florida was the first game recycling took place inside the stadium.Andres Harris, University Solid Waste Recycling manager, said since the first game University officials have learned recycling inside the bowl is more effective than placing bins because most trash is simply left on the bleachers.Almost nine tons of material were recycled from the stadium during the Auburn and Florida games. This compares to more than 28 tons of material being trashed from the stadium during the same period, Harris said.Recycling statistics were unavailable for the Tulane game.————Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]