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Brigham Young University will pick up dorm office paper, newspaper
and aluminum cans daily in 50-gallon bins. The number of bins and
the fill rate will be recorded on a route sheet and then converted
to weight on a weekly basis. Sample weights will be taken before
the competition starts to determine conversion factors. Cardboard
is collected twice a week from 8-yard compactors in the dining areas.
Unfortunately our collection truck does not have a scale and these
compactors are collected on a route along with other compactors
and dumpsters that are outside of the housing area. Since our route
driver believes that these two compactors have consistent loads
from week to week we will have our truck take six samples (three
for each of the two collection days) where he collects only the
residence area cardboard. That cardboard will then be delivered
to our MFR and we will bale it separately and weigh the bales. We
will then use these samples to estimate how much cardboard is coming
from those compactors each week. In married student housing office
paper and newspaper is placed in large dumpster or roll-off containers
which are collected infrequently, in some cases only once a semester.
Since we run our own MRF we will first empty these containers the
Friday before the competition starts and then as they fill we will
collect and bale this paper separately, and then weigh the bales.
These numbers will be used to calculate pounds recycled per student.
To calculate the number of “students” living in married
student housing we will take the number of units and multiply it
by two. BYU has TBA students living on campus as of January 1st,
2004.
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