While fans witnessed the LSU football team’s first loss this season, they also saw the introduction of recycling in Tiger Stadium.Twenty-five recycling bins were placed strategically in the stadium to gauge patron’s reactions.Recycling in the west upperdeck was the most successful, said Melissa Seanard, who came up with the original proposal for recycling in Tiger Stadium.Eight bins were placed in the east upperdeck and were attended by volunteers who directed fans toward the recycling bins when they were discarding recyclable items. About six or seven bags of recyclable material were gathered from the east side, Seanard said.Lauren Leist, mass communication freshman, volunteered in the west upperdeck and said the volunteers’ main job on the west side was to ask people if they could recycle their items instead of discarding it in the garbage can.Seanard said the eight bins in the east upper deck collected substantially less material than the west side because volunteers were instructed to simply view how the patrons reacted to the bins on the east side instead of engaging the patrons.The student section also had nine bins, which were not used a lot, said Ashton Martin, nutritional science and mass communication freshman.The volunteers in the student section gathered about two bags of material during the game, Martin said.Martin said the project would be more successful if students were educated on the bins and what materials are recyclable.Seanard said she learned it is necessary to have volunteers attend the bins to direct patrons and educate them on what is recyclable before they discard it.Andres Harris, University solid waste and recycling manager, said he learned the majority of trash is not even discarded in the trashcans but left in the bleachers.The stadium also implemented recycling in the bowl — on the bleachers around the field — cleanup process with some success Sunday.Todd Jeansonne, assistant director for athletic facilities, said groups paid to clean the stadium were instructed to leave the plastic cups and bottles in the aisles so other groups could drain the material in buckets and recycle the plastic.One of the three groups cleaning the stadium discarded all materials because it’s wasn’t supplied with recycling bags, said Alaine Garner, psychology junior, who worked with Delta Sigma Theta to clean the south end of the stadium.Another group dumped the liquids onto the bleachers because it wasn’t provided with buckets, said Phillip Alford, communication studies senior, who worked with Army ROTC cleaning the east and west lower deck bleachers.Another group was provided with the necessary tools and followed the outline provided by Jeansonne, said William Shannon, finance senior, who worked with Kappa Kappa Psi cleaning the north side bleachers.—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]