Recycling Students’ Stuff
Each year, the College starts a recycling project during finals week that lasts until New Student Orientation (NSO) in the fall.
Stuff is collected
In the basement of Main Hall, volunteers from Second Mile, a local thrift shop, separate the clothes from everything else. The clothes and shoes go to Second Mile. If they don’t sell there, they go to a series of locations before being shredded and recycled. Ultimately, the clothes are all used somehow.
During NSO, the Student Environmental Committee holds a flea market. Fans and lamps are some of the most frequently donated items, aside from clothes, and there is no shortage of other dorm room staples such as shower caddies, hangers, rugs, and posters.
Chris Bair ’97, the College’s environmental and safety manager, oversees this recycling project, which he says has been going on in some form for the last 15 years. The sale, he says, is a more recent addition.