Word: audits
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Harvard's trash has shown "an encouraging trend towards significant waste reduction" over the past year, though much of what is still discarded could be recycled, the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) reported in its second annual waste audit...
...audit analyzed the contents of 32 trash bags selected at random from undergraduate residential buildings...
...intent of the audit was to provide an "accurate way to see what people are throwing away," said Kunal Merchant '01, co-chair of the EAC recycling committee...
...addition to already-existing data on what Harvard is recycling, the audit seeks to find "what kinds of things people are systematically throwing away that they should not be," Merchant said...
...line with national trends, the audit reported that the number of recyclables discarded with trash is decreasing. Compared to last October, recyclables collected from Houses and dorms has dropped by 10 percent. Recyclable paper, cardboard, cans and bottles are also composing a lower percentage of waste...