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Students say a multi-media approach to visual art is uncommon in the VES department's offerings this year. Reichek, a New York City-based artist, requires students to find their own materials and allots each a budget of $250 to purchase them. For a recent "Trash as Art" project, Reichek showed slides and spoke about what contemporary artists have done in terms of turning refuse into art. She equipped students with reading selections and questions about the meaning of 'trash,' then sent them off to work on projects of their...
...group, a subcommittee of the Environmental Action Committee and an affiliate of Phillips Brooks House, wants to find out how much of the trash being thrown away is recyclable...
...data on what was being recycled and the number of trash bags being thrown away," said Rob Gogan, Waste Manager for the Operation Services, who was directing the effort. "But we've never analyzed what's in the trash...
...trash was weighed to calculate what percent of the waste is recyclable in terms of weight, giving a more precise figure than if only the volume of trash was considered...
...also checking what amongst the trash is compostable. For two years we had a compost program," said Gogan. "We were taking food waste out of Annenburg, Loker and Adam's house kitchen. Thompson Disposal had a truck we used...but the truck was stolen in early September...