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Harvard throws away tons of recyclables every day, hurting the environment and costing the university thousands of dollars in potential savings, results from last Monday’s waste audit show...
Forty-three percent of Harvard’s trash could have been recycled, representatives from the Resource Efficiency Program and Harvard University Operation Services found after sorting through 47 trash bags in the university’s fifth annual waste audit...
While this marks an 8 percent improvement over the first audit in 1998, it is a decline of 14 percent from last year. Officials say rainy weather conditions and a different geographic sample from last year may explain the increase...
Gogan said he was not bothered by last week’s waste audit, attributing it to the nature of the sample. Last year’s audit drew heavily from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. “Radcliffe has a remarkable recycling program, and I think they might have skewed the results a little,” he said. “Also, the weather both on the sample collection days and on the day of the audit was rainy. Everything was a little damper and denser than normal...
Gogan said this year’s audit showed the same general breakdown of trash as previous years. By weight, Harvard’s waste contains 29 percent recyclable paper, 14 percent recyclable cans and bottles, 36 percent non-recyclable compostables and 21 percent non-recyclable non-compostables...