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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...
...REP Co-captain Lindsay E. Crouse ’06 said that the goal was to sort through at least 50 of the 85 bags collected earlier in the week from Houses, freshman dorms and some academic buildings...
...fourth to one-half of the trash could definitely have been recycled,” said Jeremy P. Tchou ’08, a Yard representative for REP...
Caitlin L. McLoon ’07, a Winthrop representative for REP, said that “half-used” birth control pills were her most interesting find, while Tchou cited Annenberg dishware...
After last year’s waste audit, REP discovered that 42 percent of the trash collected could have been recycled. Figures from this year’s audit were not yet available...