TUCSON, Ariz. — After a year of living at the Stone Avenue Standard and having to take her recycling to school, University of Arizona junior Carrie Sherman wanted to do something about it.

So she did a little research on recycling in Tucson, sought advice from a lawyer who’s a family friend and circulated a petition around the apartment complex.

She ended up with about 75 to 100 signatures before presenting the petition to the complex’s owners in February.

“It’s so easy not to recycle,” Sherman said. “That’s the problem … the apartment complex shouldn’t be the reason why people aren’t recycling.”

Sherman said the issue is currently at a standstill but that the apartment complex took it to a board of directors meeting. She has been told cost is the reason for not having recycling bins on the property, the same reason The Cat Scan heard repeatedly in a previous investigation into apartment recycling.

Sherman received a favorable reaction from fellow tenants to the petition while going door-to-door and stopping people outside.

“Their reaction was very like, not necessarily, ‘It’s about time,’ but people — it’s easy,” Sherman said. “It’s not something that takes a lot of effort.”

Sherman’s roommate, UA junior Sherrina Patel, said she was “excited” when she found out Sherman’s plan and happily signed the petition.

Like Sherman, she takes her recycling to campus, opting for the bins between Coconino Residence Hall and the Music Building.

As an anchor for UATV’s Daily Dose, Sherman also spreads her message on the television set.

When she started anchoring at the beginning of the school year, UATV personnel asked her to come up with a beat. She did not want to do something like fashion or health, so she started to think about the kinds of things she would want to see on her clip reel, which led to her “Globally cool tip of the day” segment.

“The kind of things I want to see on my reel are the kind of things I plan on doing, which is helping affect change, not me personally just thinking I’m changing the world, but any little tip or any little step that somebody can hear,” Sherman said. “I just started to feel like, ‘Why not, why wouldn’t I add one of those for every show?’”

So for every Monday and Wednesday show that Sherman has anchored she has researched and reported a green tip.

Sherman comes up with the tips by researching statistics on the Internet, talking to local power companies and browsing through the university’s sustainability Web site .

Every segment includes the tagline, “Don’t forget that it’s cool to care,” because as Sherman said, “It’s that easy, and it’s just as easy not to. It’s really hard I think to influence people our age to do something that isn’t the easiest route, so I think it’s important to provoke thought.”

Some of her favorite tips involved how to work your air conditioning in Tucson, green points from Tucson Electric Power and giving clothes to charity.

Patrick Hayes, Sherman’s director on the Daily Dose, said the crew looks forward to hearing her tips, which work well on a student-oriented show broadcasted in the dorms.

“It’s just really good to have, there’s so many tips that’s applicable to students,” Hayes said. “All her tips are very student-oriented, stuff that we do.”

Sherman said these green tips are especially important for students in the dorm to listen to because of the many things those students can do to make small steps toward becoming more globally conscious, so she caters to that audience.

“I’m in a position in which I can talk to a lot of people and reach a lot of people, but if it’s not fun and if it’s not cute and if it doesn’t seem easy, nobody’s going to listen,” Sherman said.

With an eye toward the future, Sherman is doing her part to make students listen by reporting green tips on UATV and petitioning her apartment complex for recycling.

“I think one person can definitely inspire a difference,” she said. “I don’t know if one person standing and screaming in the corner of a crowded room necessarily is the case, but I think that one person can definitely affect change, it just has to do with the motivation.”