{"id":18686,"date":"2017-07-05T14:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/?p=18686"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:38:39","slug":"students-give-new-life-to-old-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/2017\/07\/05\/students-give-new-life-to-old-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Give New Life to Old Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

From turning a broken chair into an end table to making knick knack shelves from a pair of crutches, an environmental health class discovered creative ideas for recycling old items.
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Janice Clark, professor of health science at Truman State University, encourages her students to think about National Recycling Day a little bit more than the average college student. Every fall in Clark\u2019s HLTH 362 course, students are challenged with a \u201cSecond Life Project.\u201d As part of Clark\u2019s curriculum for the environmental health class, students not only give a second life to old products but also construct a paper to fully analyze the impact the project can make. \u201cThe Second Life Project is my original idea for a class project, and it\u2019s been on the HLTH 362 schedule of course activities for the past five or more years,\u201d Clark said. There are no restrictions for what products the students can use except for the minimal use of brand new products.<\/p>\n

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From turning a broken chair into an end table to making knick knack shelves from a pair of crutches, an environmental health class discovered creative ideas for recycling old items. Janice Clark, professor of health science at Truman State University, encourages her students to think about National Recycling Day a little bit more than the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 16:10:22","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions\/18688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}