TOPEKA (KSNT) – Washburn University is marking Earth Day in a unique way this year.
Artists of all ages are currently hard at work creating colorful plant sculptures and, in celebration of Earth Day, all of the pieces are biodegradable.
Earlier in the day on April 22, Washburn held a celebration at its Memorial Union. Visitors learned how to reduce their impact on the environment, how to recycle and compost correctly, and the benefits of growing native plants. Organizers said education is the key to sustainability.
“I think Earth Day, especially now, we’ve gotten kind of addicted to plastics and kind of these things that are really bad for the environment,” said the supervisor for Washburn’s biology department, Kaylyn Hobelman. “And so just trying to educate people on ways that they can reduce their own impacts and then on the larger scale, too.”
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Washburn’s Earth Day workshop is open to the public and lasts until 6 p.m. on April 22 at the Mulvane art lab.
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