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Boston Globe
'The exodus of college students has similar results nearly everywhere.
At Harvard, dorm cleanup crews two years ago found an $800 Nieman
Marcus
evening gown and several years before had to remove an 800-pound
fully assembled V8 engine left in a fireplace.''
David Abel, Globe correspondent, Boston Globe. (8/28/2000) "Trumping
the
Dump," page A01.
People Magazine
"'We always knew there was tons of waste when people moved
out,' says Karen Bromberg, 20, a junior at Boston's Tufts University
who helped with a sale. 'We just didn't know how to fix it.'"
People Magazine. (10/30/00) "Waste Watcher," page 73
College Bound Magazine
"… Dump & Run, an environmental organization whose
mission is to raise awareness by reducing waste and organizing campus-wise
garage sales that turn trash into cash. What's really cool is that
it doesn't affiliate itself with any specific organization; each
school that holds a sale gets to decide to which organization their
earnings get donated."
Viki Salemi, College Bound Magazine. (2001) "From Trash to
Treasure: A Look at Dump & Run."
Waste News
"Much of the 640 pounds of solid waste the average college
student sends to landfills each year is recyclable. But the key
to the growing interest in Dump & Run is money, the very heart
of our throwaway society…'People pay attention if you show
them that when you're throwing (reusable) things away, in essence
you're throwing away money,' says founder Lisa Heller."
Jim Konkoly, Waste News. (10/2/00) "College instructor launches
campus recycling program."
New York Times
"Selling half-full bottles of laundry detergent for $1, working
hair dryers for $5 or mini-refrigerators for $25 to $50 did more
than net $2,700 for charity at Richmond [University in 2000]. The
University also enjoyed a classic benefit of recycling: It cut its
post-student-evacuation trash pickups in half."
Julie Flaherty, New York Times. (8/6/00) "Graduate's Trash
Becomes Freshmen's Treasure With a Program That Recycles Dormitory
Castoffs," Education Supplement.
Lewiston Sun Journal
"As one of Dump and Run's slogans suggests, "turning trash
into cash" is exactly what six college campuses in the nation
are doing this spring, including Bates College. Student volunteers
are collecting all kinds of dorm items from coffee tables to laundry
detergent, selling what is usable at yard sales for bargain prices
and donating the proceeds to locally based, nonprofit organizations."
Chris Baker, Staff Writer, Lewiston Sun Journal. (4/22/01) "Program
has students turn trash into charity cash,"
"There's no shortage of stuff. At the University
of Richmond - Dump and Run's pilot site and Heller's former employer
- donations made to Goodwill after the sale filled a 15-foot truck
eight times. Waste at the school typically increases by 30 percent
at semester's end as students move out. Heller estimates that Dump
and Run salvaged, then sold or donated about half of the surplus
trash."
Chris Baker, Staff Writer, Lewiston Sun Journal. (4/22/01) "Program
has students turn trash into charity cash."
Family Circle Magazine
"[Dump & Run] nonprofit enterprise gathers students; throwaways
and sells them to incoming students. Among the goodies sold: hairdryers
for $5, mini-refrigerators for $25. Sales thus far have netted about
$6000 for various charities."
Family Circle Magazine. (2/20/01) "Graduation Goodies."
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