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University of Vermont students will bring recycling (paper and
bottles) from their rooms to central bins on each floor. Housekeeping
staff then transports it to 65-gallon and 95-gallon carts in the
basement. Recycling staff will note how many carts they pick up
and the fill rate of each cart at residence hall locations (drivers
will note ¼, ½, ¾ or full for each cart) before
dumping the carts into a side-load recycle truck for delivery to
a MRF off campus. This information will be recorded on a daily route
sheet and converted from volume (gallons) to weight (pounds) (by
estimation based on previously weighed full carts) on a weekly basis.
Some returnable deposit bottles will be taken by housekeeping to
a local beverage distributor. Weekly bag counts of this material
will be taken and converted into pounds. Corrugated cardboard picked
up from Residence Hall locations will be weighed by private contractors
in a scale-equipped truck. These numbers will be added together
and used to calculate pounds recycled per student. University of
Vermont has 3,450 students living on campus as of January 1st, 2004.
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