Tag: Trash

  • Nation & World

    The rats are gonna hate this one too …

    Alum explains why being NYC sanitation commissioner is a dream job — if you care about delivering essential services.

    8 minutes
    Photo illustration of rat climbing Empire State building surrounded by piles of trash.
  • Nation & World

    Trouble afloat: Ocean plastics

    Plastic pollution in the oceans is a large and growing problem, but one that may be out of the reach of consumers to solve and instead may require cooperation from industry, said Max Liboiron, regional co-director of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

    4 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

    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

    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