2004 University Profiles

School Contact Information

Harvard University


School Recycling Information

 

 

 
 

1990

 

10,407

 

40

 

37

 

11

 

 

 

25%

 

 
 

 
 

 
 


 
 


  • Recover 50% of municipal refuse by 2005
  • Increase effectiveness of reuse programs through collaboration with charities

 

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. Food Service staff from in-board dining facilities affiliated with student residence halls will separate recyclables and set them into barrels or bales on loading docks for pickups. 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 10,407 students living in their residence halls as of January 1, 2004. This number will be used to calculate pounds recycled per student. Volumes and qualitative measurements are converted using the following ratios:

  • 1 Bag of Paper = 10 lbs
  • 1 Bag of cans/bottles = 5 lbs
  • 1 96-gal barrel of paper/cardboard = 100 lbs
  • 1 bundle of corrugated cardboard = 5 lbs
  • 1 bale of corrugated cardboard = 500 lbs