School Name:

Harvard University

School RecycleMania/Recycling Web Site:

Spring Break Dates:

Year Recycling Program Started:

1990

Number of Students Living On-Campus:

8,005

Number of Residence Halls:

40

Number of On-Campus Apartment Buildings:

37

Number of Dining Halls:

11

Number of "To Go" Food Areas:

Current Recycling Percentage for On-Campus Housing:

20%

Total On-Campus Population:

Total Number of On-Campus Buildings:

Current Recycling Percentage for all On-Campus Facilities:

Recyclables Currently Recycled:

Recycling Goals:

• To raise awareness of waste management and recycling
• To tap into competitive spirit to promote recycling among students
• To make administrators more aware of campus recycling

How will your university SPECIFICALLY measure the recyclables? Will you use volume based or actual weight measurements?:

Harvard University’s students will separate their recyclables and set them in designated trash/recycling rooms in their residence halls. Custodians and student dorm crew workers will take the recyclables to the curb on the designated pick up day. Drivers will take bag counts to allocate the volumes generated by each building. Recyclables from some buildings are collected directly by Save That Stuff, Harvard’s fiber recycling collection contractor. The recyclables are then dumped at the KTI Materials Recovery Facility in Charlestown, MA, which gives the driver a weight slip. The weights will be given to Rob Gogan, Harvard’s Waste Manager, who will calculate pounds recycled per student living on-campus. According to Harvard’s Undergraduate, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Law School Student Housing Offices, there are 8,005 students living in their residence halls as of February 1, 2002. This number will be used to calculate pounds recycled per student.