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Some students had said they worried the keg ban would be environmentally unfriendly, replacing kegs with cans and bottles.
A new student group started a push earlier this fall to encourage recycling and waste reduction. The Resource Efficiency Program (REP) is spearheading a campus-wide distribution of stackable recycling baskets for 2,500 dorm rooms–one basket for paper and another for bottles and cans.
In Kirkland, where most of the new baskets have already been distributed, the driver who picked up recycling was astounded by the large number of cans and bottles that were recycled. According to Gould, it was the biggest amount he had seen outside of a move-out.
If Harvard recovered only half of the paper, cans and bottles currently discarded, Gogan said, Harvard would save over $100,000 per year on trash disposal costs.
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.