Word: audits
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...data from this year's trash audit has not been compiled yet, but the auditors have already learned a few interesting things from their efforts...
Protected by dust masks and rubber gloves, these workers opened 31 trash bags and meticulously sorted the refuse they found inside. This sorting was part of Harvard's second annual trash audit, aimed at finding out how much of what Harvard students throw away could be recycled...
Last year's inaugural trash audit found over 50 percent of things thrown away were potentially recyclable, according to Harvard's Supervisor of Waste Management Robert M. Gogan, who organized the audits...
...groups are also considering a spring audit. Merchant said he is interested to see if the types of waste "vary seasonally...
Most of the student workers had worked last year's audit, Platt said, so they were used to working with such an unusual subject...