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Article: Harvard students, employees sort trash for audit
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- University Wire
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- November 12, 1999
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Daniel D. Springer
University Wire
11-12-1999
(Harvard Crimson) (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Thursday morning at 9 a.m., on their only day off between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving, 10 Harvard students and maintenance employees met to inspect one of Harvard's most abundant products- trash.
Protected by dust masks and rubber gloves, these workers opened 31 trash bags and meticulously sorted the refuse they found inside. This sorting was part of Harvard's second annual trash audit, aimed at finding out how much of what Harvard students throw away could be recycled.
"We were trying to find out exactly what was in that trash," said Kunal Merchant, co-chair of the Environmental Action ...