Trashy Students
Typical scene on college campuses at this time of the year: the school year ends, it is time to leave campus and all of your stuff won’t fit into your car, so you just dump it, which is much easier than shipping or storage. As parents arrive to take their kids home for the summer, the campus is a mess with excess trash all over the place, not the impression administrators want to make and it is expensive to have this stuff hauled off.
Schools have started to recycle the left behind items to local charities and Penn State has an annual Trash to Treasure” sale with 62 tons of stuff to sell this year.
The value of the left behind trash has steadily increased over time reflecting an increase in family incomes of kids who attend four-year colleges and universities.
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