The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Trashy Idea

Ever wonder exactly how much trash you produce?

Eight students at Clarkson University set out to answer that question, bagging all their nonrecyclable refuse and hauling it with them, everywhere, for five days in November.

Madison Quinn, president of the university's Environmental Conservation Organization, the group that undertook the...

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