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Dumpster diving season in Boulder? Not anymore, says CU
Ah, graduation! The time when many a privileged student celebrates his or her exit from Boulder by summarily throwing away hundreds of dollars’ worth of Target purchases.
Chuck it! | Photo by Mark Leffingwell
Boulder residents typically descend upon the campus to grab some of said perfectly-good items for use in their own homes, as you can see in this poorly-produced (I can say that; I did it in 2005 before I had any idea what I was doing) video for the late, great newspaper dirt:
But CU’s puttin’ the kibosh on all that — with a big ol’ recycling program that the Environmental Center says saved 14 tons of material from the landfill last year. Fourteen tons of TVs, IKEA lamps, tiny throw rugs, desk chairs and everything else!
“Theres a history that carries on in this campus, and people assume what they’ll find based on the history and the past,” Gheysar said. “But we have a station in every building for renewable items, and this year we have arranged with the Salvation Army to take them away. We also provide a location for cardboard, co-mingled containers and you name it.”
CUs Environmental Center even staffs the move-out season with volunteers who help students keep the stuff they dont want from ending up in landfills.
Though you’ll still undoubtedly find lots and lots of things set out on the sidewalks along the hill and down on Moorhead Ave. Just sayin’.
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the desk chairs that our mom use are always leather based instead of using cloth covers.-’
when using desk chairs, i would always prefer to use wood instead of plastic desk chairs “-: