Keeping Campus Clean

Custodians can only do so much to keep our campus a clean campus. There are about 10 custodians and about 20,000 students on campus.

Custodian Louie Galvan says he spends most of his day picking up trash bags.

“On a busy day, I pick up 15, 20, 30 trips to the dumpster, and then we come back to make it clean.”

Not only does he pick up all the trash, but he also has to pick up litter left behind by students. There is trash left on the ground outside the Resnick Student Union and empty Starbucks cups under the trees at the University Student Union. Now that graduatioin season is here, confetti is a common site all over campus as people take their graduation pictures and don’t pick up after themselves. All of this mess is picked up by our custodians.

Galvez also said students often throw away full cups of coffee or other drinks, which creates a mess.

“Sometimes we get in the garbage, it seems that people take a drink of their tall coffee, they throw it in the trash. We try to pick it up and liquid gets everywhere,” Galvan said.

At the plaza in front of The Bucket, there are eight trash cans lined up.

Mason Bever, a Media, Communications and Journalism major, said that trash should just be picked up.

“It’s common sense,” Bever said. “I think if you see some trash in the ground, I think you should just pick it up and take it to the nearest trash can.”

Small act; big impact. Fresno State provides a grey-colored can for landfill trash and a blue-colored bin for recyclables.