Comments on: Michigan Tailgate Tries for Zero Waste http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/09/27/um-tailgate-tries-for-zero-waste/ it's like being there Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Santi Hall http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/09/27/um-tailgate-tries-for-zero-waste/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-31196 Jennifer Santi Hall Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:18:08 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=29055#comment-31196 Great story! I'm so excited to see progress being made on waste management at UM. I did some work at the Union when I was an undergrad (about 1994). Some other students and I sorted trash (yes, it was really gross!) in the Union ballroom and determined that food was the largest component of waste. We couldn't convince anyone to start a compost program back then. Paper was the next target. We tried a campaign to get people to put their paper Wendy's bags into the recycling bins instead of the trash ... but unfortunately, I don't think we were very successful. A few years after this, when I was a grad student teaching assistant - I conducted a similar waste project with some undergrads at Chrisler (the group of students included then UM superstar Maceo Baston). We determined the plastic cups were the biggest problem in the waste stream. I wonder if they've done anything about this since then? Great story! I’m so excited to see progress being made on waste management at UM. I did some work at the Union when I was an undergrad (about 1994). Some other students and I sorted trash (yes, it was really gross!) in the Union ballroom and determined that food was the largest component of waste. We couldn’t convince anyone to start a compost program back then. Paper was the next target. We tried a campaign to get people to put their paper Wendy’s bags into the recycling bins instead of the trash … but unfortunately, I don’t think we were very successful.

A few years after this, when I was a grad student teaching assistant – I conducted a similar waste project with some undergrads at Chrisler (the group of students included then UM superstar Maceo Baston). We determined the plastic cups were the biggest problem in the waste stream. I wonder if they’ve done anything about this since then?

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