EPS GREEN TEAM
Harvard Recycles!!
Did you know the following items are able to be recycled?
TRASH AND RECYCLING FACTS
Last year...
- Harvard sent 9000 tons of solid waste to the landfill at a cost of $87/ton
- 43% of solid waste by weight was recycled
- 40% of trash thrown away could have been recycled instead
- Harvard's trash goes all the way to South Carolina (recycled materials stay in the Boston area)
- The CO2 emissions associated with hauling our trash to South Carolina is almost 850,000 pounds of CO2 (that's the annual equivalent of 83 cars, 49 houses worth of electricity)!
- Every American produces about 1 million lbs of trash/year.
- Creating and transporting products use 200x more energy than it takes to dispose of the final product.
