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From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. yesterday, REP members, clad in green ponchos and purple gloves, gathered outside the Science Center to weigh and sort the contents of garbage bags into five categories: paper, compostables, reusable, cans, bottles and actual trash. The amount in each category was then weighed to help REP get an idea of how much trash Harvard isn’t recycling...
...bottles,” Crouse said. “We want to make students more aware that recycling is really easy. When they throw away one bottle, it turns into this,” Crouse said, pointing to the pile of cans and bottles she had found in the trash bags...
...fourth to one-half of the trash could definitely have been recycled,” said Jeremy P. Tchou ’08, a Yard representative...
Harvard pays $90 to dispose of every ton of trash, compared to $68 per ton of compostables and $25 per ton of cans and bottles recycled, Gogan said. And the University actually gets paid $35 for each ton of paper and cardboard recycled...
...beautiful day in New York City, and Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes are spending it on a garbage barge docked on the East River. They're shooting on location for CSI: New York, and the pair has found a lovely corpse in fishnet stockings among the trash. Fortunately for them, it's "clean" trash--Pampers boxes, garbage bags filled with paper wads. When the crew used a barge filled with real garbage on CSI: Miami, it found a bloated dead rat that--waste not, want not--it used in the scene...