Did you know the average college student produces up to 640 pounds of trash every year? Even lightly used clothes, small appliances and dorm/apartment supplies often just get tossed at the end of the school year. NYU students found a way to keep much of that out of landfills.
At NYU’s August “swap shop,” over 1800 students snapped up thousands of pounds of donated items – all for free! Where some see mountains of trash, NYU and other schools with similar programs see a way to help cash-strapped students and the environment at the same time.
“We all have to do our little part,” says Cecil Scheib, NYU’s chief sustainability officer. “People feel their little part doesn’t add up, but it does.”
Read more about this ingenious idea at work!
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