Amanda in Pharmacology

Total Oct Hours: 1 With the release of a new fundraising raffle, reaching almost HALF the fundraising goal, and collecting thousands of bottles of glass during each drop off, it's been a very exciting month with GHF!  Today is the day that Zeta is supposed to make landfall as a Category 2 Hurricane. Yesterday, GHF handed out donation-based sandbags for those in the city with the need. Glass drop off today is closed, and will likely reopen on Saturday! I volunteered last Tuesday, the day before drop off at Joilet St. We prepared the warehouse for the next day's drop offs!  1. This first image (red square) shows the MOUNTAIN of bags/boxes of glass we sorted into milk crates. The focus wasn't on specific color-coding today, but whenever we find a Skyy Vodka bottle or a Bud Lite Platinum, we store it separately. When the cobalt glass gets sifted, it creates a beautiful sand color!  2. These are milk crates stocked and ready to be transported to the Louisa St. warehouse for pr...

Total Sept Hours: 4 As the first month of masked graduate school has come and gone, I am so grateful to get to discuss the service I have gotten involved with in New Orleans this month.  Last spring, a couple of my undergraduate classmates at Tulane founded the organization "Glass Half Full NOLA" (GHF). This "glassroots" organization had the time to grow immensely over the pandemic months in terms of planning, preparation, and execution of bringing glass recycling to not only New Orleans, but the entire state of Louisiana! The glass is processed into sand and cullet for disaster relief, helping prevent the further dredging damage on our beaches and their ecosystems. The process starts with the glass drop-off. I volunteered a couple hours on a Wednesday at the Joilet St. location. People come up with bags full of glass that are dumped into one of the many glass recycling barrels. One of our jobs is to ensure the caps/tops were removed from glass before tossing into b...