Amy Preble Scholarship Fund
The Carolina Recycling Association, together with our Collegiate Recyclers Coalition, created the Amy Preble Scholarship Fund in January 2021, to honor the life and legacy of our longtime friend and colleague, Amy Preble. The fund will be used to provide tuition scholarships to North and South Carolina’s college/university students with a future in recycling and waste reduction. Students enrolled in a college or university, or in a community college, in either North or South Carolina will be eligible to apply for this scholarship, provided that they demonstrate a strong interest and dedication to recycling, waste reduction, reuse, sustainability, and other related areas in their application. The scholarship will be awarded annually beginning in the Winter of 2022. Funding is supported by donations from the recycling community, friends and family members of Amy, and the CRA itself.
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About Amy
Amy Preble, beloved friend, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, and coworker passed away on March 13, 2021 at Transitions Hospice in Raleigh of complications from leukemia. She was 49 years old.
Amy grew up in Garden City, Long Island, where she attended Sacred Heart Academy. After graduating she moved to Chapel Hill, where she attended the University of North Carolina and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies. Amy loved the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community and lived there for the remainder of her life. Amy was a proud feminist and advocate for women and the victims of sexual violence. She volunteered and served several terms on the board of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center, including serving as its president.
A passionate advocate for sustainability and environmental stewardship, Amy worked for more than twenty years in the Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling at UNC Chapel Hill, where she served as Waste Diversion Coordinator. She also chaired the Collegiate Recycling Coalition, serving multiple terms, as well as serving in leadership roles on the Carolina Recycling Association board of directors. She had only recently begun graduate work in sustainability at Appalachian State when she received her leukemia diagnosis in the fall of 2019.
Amy’s true life’s work, however, was the cultivation and nurture of her many friendships. From schoolmates at Sacred Heart and UNC, to her many colleagues in the sustainability field, to the global Buffista community (where she was known online, fittingly, as “Amyth”), Amy brought people together and kept those bonds alive. Friendship was indeed her life, and now it’s her legacy. Thanks to her, those of us left behind are blessed to have each other for comfort as we all grieve her loss.
The Amy Preble Scholarship Fund has been established to support college students with a future in recycling in North and South Carolina.