Tag: Recycling

  • Nation & World

    Composting program grows in the Yard

    To create a more sustainable campus, the College will implement composting in all freshman dormitories.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Designing a cleaner future

    A slum on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, received major media attention when the world realized it’s where computers go to die. That was when Harvard undergraduate Rachel Field ’12 devoted her senior thesis project to addressing the problem. Her solution was an award-winner.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    No time to waste

    Harvard recycles, reuses, or composts more than half its waste, but a recent audit shows that there is room to further reduce the more than 6,300 tons sent to landfills each year, according to Rob Gogan, associate manager of recycling services in Harvard’s University Operations Services.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Scaling a mountain of trash

    With half of U.S. trash still going into landfills, discussions are ongoing about how to handle the nation’s waste, with recycling, composting, incineration, and reuse all part of the mix, says Samantha MacBride, who studies such issues.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The return to recycling

    Recycling was the norm before the Industrial Revolution’s creation of cheap consumer goods started to produce what eventually became the throwaway society, according to Susan Strasser, author of the book “Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    One person’s trash …

    Children will turn rubbish into toys during the “Trash Tales” event at the Peabody Museum on Aug. 20.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In trash, an unlikely muse

    Nima Samimi collects jobs — 43 so far. In his latest, at the Arnold Arboretum, he collects refuse, as well as good ideas for making the famed site even greener.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Not just hot air

    Efforts to make the University sustainable have played a critical role in changing everyday behavior, from recycling to composting to conserving energy. In the process, Harvard serves as a kind of experimental model.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A look inside: Currier House

    The crest of Currier House shows a field of red, representing Harvard, surrounding a simple golden tree. Within their own communal “tree,” Currier residents have been “greening” the way they live.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Greening the Kennedy School

    Harvard Kennedy School makes quick progress in efforts to conserve energy use, promote recycling.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard students improve recycling

    Students from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Resource Efficiency Program and staff from Harvard Recycling conducted the 13th annual waste audit on Nov. 11.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    By the numbers

    Keeping Harvard fed is a mammoth logistical effort, almost a military operation. The 12 University-owned restaurants, 13 dining halls, and many catered events now serve about 26,000 meals a day — about 5 million a year. The numbers tell the story.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Medieval recycling

    Radcliffe Fellow Robin Fleming peers into the history of early medieval Britain through the lens of material culture.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Putt, putt, putting green to work

    Every day and all year round, Adams House dining hall general manager David A. Seley commutes to Harvard on a moped — a lesson in green transportation that he hopes engenders thought and promotes action.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How to move out and stay green at same time

    With the end of the academic year fast approaching, the temptation to purge all obsolete office and school materials is stronger than ever. But to maintain Harvard’s impressive 50 percent recycling rate, Harvard’s University Operations Services (UOS) wishes to remind the community to continue recycling all materials whenever possible. All old documents, books, folders, magazines,…

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    University recycles half its trash for first time

    Harvard’s University-wide recycling rate topped 50 percent for the first time ever in October, the latest in a series of recycling gains that University Operations Services Supervisor of Waste Management Rob Gogan said are not over.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s recycling is recognized

    Harvard’s recycling efforts have netted it an award from the American Forest and Paper Association, which is hoping others follow the University’s example and increase recycling rates around the country, according to an association official.

    2 minutes