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...various cities and universities across the nation, has been correlated with increased recycling rates. The Web site of Waste Management, America’s top recycling company, states that single-stream recycling has “greatly increased participation and household recovery” of recyclables by 42 percent since they instated the system...
...Harvard, 53 percent of total refuse was recovered for recycling in the month of July. This percentage, which also includes compost, scrap metal, and wooden pallets in addition to basic recyclables, is about a 2 percent increase from last July. Gogan said he expects this number to rise over the semester...
...It’s really September-October that is going to tell the bigger story,” he said. “We’ve got a shot at breaking 55 [percent recovery] if single-stream really catches on.” —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...About 80 percent of her graduate student advisees tend to go on to jobs in academia, she said...
...passage of the Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act (FUDAA) in 1984 placed pressure on states to adopt a minimum legal drinking age of 21 by October 1986, or sacrifice 10 percent of their allocated federal funding for highway construction. Many states had lowered their drinking age from 21 to 18 in the 1970s—coinciding with the passage of the 26th Amendment by which citizens age 18 and older were granted voting rights. A primary aim of the FUDAA was to reduce typically high teenage TFRs by limiting access to alcohol for this age group. TFRs...