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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Will curtail trash removal and window-washing to save...
...these days. Following last year’s recycling efforts, which gave the university a 55 percent recycling rate that put it at the top of the Ivy League, the university is continuing to pursue numerous waste-reduction strategies. New on campus are the new solar-powered Big Belly trash and recycling compactors, which fill up far less quickly than non-compacting receptacles and reduce the incentive to litter that overflowing trash cans often provide. Recycling has also been incorporated at the Fly-By lunch station beneath Annenberg, now featuring special receptacles for cartons and other recyclable waste...
...little more than a year after University President Drew G. Faust vowed to cut Harvard’s net greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 levels over the course of eight years, the University has continued its sustainability push with the installation of five solar-compacting trash bins...
...five “Big Belly” recycling and trash stations—located at the south-side entrance of the Science Center, Holworthy Gate, Holyoke Gate, the northwest entrance of Grays Hall, and Boylston plaza—replaced two non-compacting trash and recycling bins in the Yard...
Gogan said that tourists and students often littered when trash cans appeared full, and a lot of recyclable waste would be thrown away. A non-compacting trash can has to be emptied up to three times a day during warm months. The new compacting bins are checked daily but emptied only every two to three days...