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...important,” says Martel. But Martel’s thinking is more apathetic than active. “I don’t go out of my way to recycle,” says Martel, but she’s not dumping cans and bottles into the trash, either. Similarly, Zachary V. Smith ’09 says, “I wouldn’t go out of my way” to separate trash from recyclables. “It is more convenient to put everything is a big black trash bag,” Smith...
Netting cash for these projects is contingent upon REP’s effectiveness. “We have to prove to them that we can influence student behavior that has repercussions for them,” says Lanoue. “It costs $80 to dispose a ton of trash, and we get paid $15 for a ton of paper that we recycle and we pay twenty something dollars to recycle a ton of cans and bottles,” says Lanoue. “It definitely makes more economic sense to recycle...
...difficult to gauge the effectiveness of a program aimed at increasing sustainability, a numerically immeasurable quantity. But though there are no distinct numbers to evaluate sustainability, REP does have some results to go by. Allison I. Rogers ’04, a former program coordinator, points to recycling and trash numbers as a measure of the program’s success. “If we were to go back to the baseline in 2001, the last year before it existed, we would see a huge difference in the number of energy consumption and trash and recycling...
Everywhere you go, it lurks. It stinks up your dorm, and your roommate never takes it out. It is slowly taking over the world. But for some Harvard students, the refuse of a dorm room is more than just a call for DormAid. Around campus, various groups are using trash to create “green art” in the form of sculpture, cartoons, and clothing. These trash crafts represent a way to bring awareness to the wasteful ways of Harvard students, even as some use green products in their quest to create great...
...more environmentally friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) was almost too successful. Students flocked to exchange their gauche bulbs for the trendier CFLs, leaving REP sitting on thousands of the old-fashioned ones. Obviously, a program dedicated to resource efficiency couldn’t hide the stack behind the trash like the rest of us. What...